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

[Ondřej Čertík]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Sébastien Villemot
<sebastien at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

Ah I see. Cool. If you discover some other bug with the 1.7.0 release,
that is a bug in NumPy, please let us know.

Ondrej