[Python-modules-team] Bug#679948: regression (fixed upstream) in deducing the dtype for record array

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Package: python-numpy
Version: 1:1.6.2-1
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream

I was troubleshooting pynn FTBFS
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669466
and one of the recently failed unittests was due to following regression:

$> python -c "import numpy; print numpy.__version__; print numpy.array([('a', 1), ('b', 9.99)])"
1.4.1
[['a' '1']
 ['b' '9.99']]
$> python -c "import numpy; print numpy.__version__; print numpy.array([('a', 1), ('b', 9.99)])"
1.6.2
[['a' '1']
 ['b' '9']]

and it seemd to be fixed in current master

$> git show origin/master
commit e15d0bdd3cc0bc0928e1f4d0b419a2fb3de02af9
Merge: da3da3d 56183d7
Author: Travis E. Oliphant <teoliphant at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 26 19:59:09 2012 -0700

    Merge pull request #322 from stefanv/fix_np_core_bscript
    
    PKG: Fix numpy core bscript.

#scipy IRC is quiet -- I will try to bisect it


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental'), (100, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-numpy depends on:
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so.3gf]      1.2.20110419-2
ii  libc6                            2.13-33
ii  libgcc1                          1:4.7.1-2
ii  libgfortran3                     4.7.1-2
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapack.so.3gf]  3.3.1-1
ii  libquadmath0                     4.7.1-2
ii  python                           2.7.2-10
ii  python-support                   1.0.14

python-numpy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-numpy suggests:
ii  gcc               4:4.7.1-1
ii  gfortran          4:4.6.1-2
ii  python-dev        2.7.2-10
ii  python-nose       1.1.2-3
ii  python-numpy-dbg  1:1.6.2-1
ii  python-numpy-doc  1:1.5.1-4

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