Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy docs dependency problem in Ubuntu

2011-02-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 11, 2011, at 01:57 PM, Robert Kern wrote: >If you are going to do an Ubuntu-only fix, would that allow using our >prebuilt doc packages? IIRC, the only objection to that was that it was >Debian policy to build docs from sources. But then again, that might have >just been the first objection

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy docs dependency problem in Ubuntu

2011-02-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hi Ralf, On Feb 12, 2011, at 06:12 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > Now that you're here to discuss Ubuntu packaging, can you tell us if you or >another packager plan to include scipy 0.9.0 in Natty if it's released on >time? Final release is planned for the weekend of 19/20 Feb. Feature freeze for Nat

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy docs dependency problem in Ubuntu

2011-02-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 11, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Bruce Southey wrote: >If Ubuntu's different repositories are a problem then that is Ubuntu's >own fault for putting the numpy and matplotlib in different repositories >(that applies to other distros as well). Clearly someone did not do >their homework before doing

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy docs dependency problem in Ubuntu

2011-02-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 11, 2011, at 05:50 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: >The point is that the Ubuntu build servers cannot build the >documentation, because matplotlib is not available at build time. (First, >because matplotlib depends circularly on Numpy, and second, since by >policy Numpy build cannot depend on

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy docs dependency problem in Ubuntu

2011-02-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 11, 2011, at 06:45 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 16:40, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> For Debian, we'd simply take those two separate source packages and split the >> binary packages among them as appropriate. > >excuse me? I don't like this solut

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy docs dependency problem in Ubuntu

2011-02-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 11, 2011, at 05:18 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: >[Crossposting to matplotlib devel list] > >Robert Kern writes: > >> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:22, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> >>> Here's the problem: for Ubuntu, we've had to disable the building of &

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy docs dependency problem in Ubuntu

2011-02-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hi Robert, On Feb 10, 2011, at 04:39 PM, Robert Kern wrote: >As a digression, I think the python-matplotlib dependencies could be >significantly reduced. For a number of use cases (this is one of them, >but there are others), you don't need any GUI backend. Independent of >this issue, it would be

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy docs dependency problem in Ubuntu

2011-02-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 10, 2011, at 11:26 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: >Without matplotlib, you won't get any graphs in the documentation. >Ubuntu users will then miss out e.g. on illustrations of various >probability distributions. The figures are not absolutely necessary, but >I wouldn't like to see that to happen

[Numpy-discussion] numpy docs dependency problem in Ubuntu

2011-02-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
I hope this message is on-topic for this mailing list! I'm working on the packaging for python-numpy 1.5 in the next version of Ubuntu (11.04 - Natty), and I'm hitting an issue that I'm hoping you can help me with. For reference, the two relevant bugs are: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour