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

2011-02-17 Thread Pauli Virtanen
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:00:05 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: [clip] > One question though: is 0.9.0 API and backward compatible with 0.8.0? I > see we have a couple of dozen reverse dependencies on python-scipy, so > if there's any chance that 0.9.0 would break those dependencies, we may > have to push

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

2011-02-12 Thread Ralf Gommers
Hi Barry, On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > 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. > > No

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

2011-02-12 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:40:57 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > [clip] > > Neither will be acceptable I think. Prebuilt by upstream won't fly > > for Debian because they'd want the source and build process, and I > > don't see a feasible way for t

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

2011-02-11 Thread Robert Kern
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 13:47, Barry Warsaw wrote: > The downside is that it probably means Ubuntu would more or less permanently > diverge from Debian for numpy, which would be unfortunate for many reasons.  I > can certainly appreciate that from both upstream's and Debian's perspective, > nothi

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 solution, or are you going to do all

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

2011-02-11 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:06:42 -0600, Bruce Southey wrote: [clip: numpy/doc/*] > But that directory is still not sufficient for having the documentation > alone. It is, given a build-time dependency on the main Numpy package. Pauli ___ NumPy-Discuss

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

2011-02-11 Thread Bruce Southey
On 02/11/2011 11:50 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:34:16 -0600, Bruce Southey wrote: > [clip] >> I agree with Pauli, if Ubuntu wants the user to be able build the >> documentation then Ubuntu would have to create a special package with >> just the numpy documentation that includes

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

2011-02-11 Thread Robert Kern
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:34, Bruce Southey wrote: > The apparent problem occurs when the user has to build the documentation > from source as sphinx and matlibplot are dependencies. No, please reread the original post. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma

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

2011-02-11 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:34:16 -0600, Bruce Southey wrote: [clip] > I agree with Pauli, if Ubuntu wants the user to be able build the > documentation then Ubuntu would have to create a special package with > just the numpy documentation that includes the necessary dependencies > (including numpy, matlib

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

2011-02-11 Thread Mark Sienkiewicz
>> We can't put python-matplotlib in main because of *its* dependencies. >> > > 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

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

2011-02-11 Thread Sandro Tosi
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 solution, or are you going to do all the work in Debian to adapt to this proposal? You have

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

2011-02-11 Thread Bruce Southey
On 02/11/2011 10:11 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:07:25 +0100, Pauli Virtanen wrote: >> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:40:57 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: [clip] >>> Neither will be acceptable I think. Prebuilt by upstream won't fly for >>> Debian because they'd want the source and build proce

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

2011-02-11 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:07:25 +0100, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:40:57 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: [clip] >> Neither will be acceptable I think. Prebuilt by upstream won't fly for >> Debian because they'd want the source and build process, and I don't >> see a feasible way for them to b

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

2011-02-11 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:40:57 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: [clip] > Neither will be acceptable I think. Prebuilt by upstream won't fly > for Debian because they'd want the source and build process, and I > don't see a feasible way for them to be prebuilt by Ubuntu that's any > different than the current

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

2011-02-11 Thread Benjamin Root
On Friday, February 11, 2011, Benjamin Root wrote: > On Friday, February 11, 2011, 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 disabl

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 >>> the numpy documentation package, because

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

2011-02-11 Thread Benjamin Root
On Friday, February 11, 2011, 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 >>> the numpy documentation package, becaus

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

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

2011-02-11 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
[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 >> the numpy documentation package, because its dependencies violate >> Ubuntu policy.  Numpy is in our "mai

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

2011-02-10 Thread Robert Kern
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 the numpy > documentation package, because its dependencies violate Ubuntu policy.  Numpy > is in our "main" archive but the documentation depends on python-matplotlib, > whic

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

2011-02-10 Thread Pauli Virtanen
to, 2011-02-10 kello 12:22 -0500, Barry Warsaw kirjoitti: [clip: Ubuntu cannot put matplotlib needed by Numpy docs into main] > This lets me get through the build of the docs without the dependency on > matplotlib, and a cursory look at the documentation looks pretty good. > > I'm inclined to prop

[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