[Python-modules-team] Bug#590756: petsc4py: Proper support for python-numpy upgrades

[morph at debian.org]

Package: petsc4py
Severity: normal

Hello,
python-numpy has recently been updated to 1.4.1 upstream
release. This brought, among several improvements & fixes, also a
data type change for 'dtype' [1], that resulted into several
packages not working anymore.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/07/msg00045.html

A fast solution would be to schedule binNMUs for the affected
packages against the new numpy, but that would break partial
upgrades (where only the packages or python-numpy is upgraded,
and this can happen given they have not a strict depends on it).

In order to avoid this situation to happen again in the next
upgrades, we started discussing some solutions [2][3] (please
read it and reply to that thread with comments).

[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/07/msg00048.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/07/msg00057.html