[Python-modules-team] Bug#700718: python-numpy: fails to upgrade from squeeze: prerm: 6: update-python-modules: not found

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le samedi 23 février 2013 à 17:14 -0800, Ondřej Čertík a écrit :
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Sébastien Villemot
> <sebastien at debian.org> wrote:
> > Le samedi 23 février 2013 à 17:17 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> >> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 13:42:45 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have now observed this behavior also while upgrading the following
> >> > packages from squeeze -> sid (and verified that these upgrades fail on
> >> > squeeze -> wheezy(+new numpy) in the same way).
> >> >
> >> If this is due to the breaks added in the new numpy, then I'd say let's
> >> revert those.  Aborting the upgrade like that seems much worse than
> >> possible incompatibilities for partial upgrades.
> >
> > Yes the problem is introduced by the new Breaks. However, as noted in my
> > previous message to this bug, this is the consequence of a real bug
> > somewhere else.
> >
> > If reverting the Breaks still has your preference, I can do it.
> 
> I am the release manager of NumPy 1.7.0. Do you think this is some bug
> in NumPy itself?

I think the bug is not in NumPy, see:

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700718#17

This bug has been exposed when some Breaks have been added in
python-numpy 1:1.6.2-1.1.

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