David Prévot <taf...@debian.org> writes: > Le 29/08/2012 08:27, Julien Cristau a écrit : >>> Le 27/08/2012 19:03, David Prévot a écrit : >>> >>>> Could you please trigger a rebuild, to make the package work again >>>> (fixing an RC-bug)? Thanks in advance. >>>> >>>> nmu python-scientific_2.8-3 . ALL . -m "Rebuild with current stuff >>>> (Closes: #685812)" > >> - the changelog entry is not understandable >> - you can't close bugs in binNMUs >> - I won't schedule a binNMU without knowing why it's needed. Neither >> your request nor the referenced bug help with that. > > Thanks Julien for your reply. Documenting on the original bug report > that the “easy way” is not enough.
The bug in python-netcdf comes from a change in python-numpy. The last binNMU of python-netcdf having occurred on 2012-03-08, it was built against python-numpy 1:1.5.1-4, whereas sid/wheezy currently have 1:1.6.2-1. This is confirmed by the following tests: - install python-netcdf and python-numpy as currently in sid => the testcase provided by Julian Taylor in #685812 fails (as already noted by Julian) - downgrade to python-numpy 1:1.5.1-4 without recompiling python-netcdf => the testcase succeeds - upgrade back to python-numpy 1:1.6.2-1 then recompile python-netcdf => the testcase succeeds (as already noted by Julian) So my understanding is that the problem comes from some ABI breakage in python-numpy, which was not followed by a recompilation of python-netcdf. What I don't understand however is that the python-numpy maintainers/upstream claim that there was no ABI breakage between 1:1.5.1-4 and 1:1.6.2-1 (see the Provides field of python-numpy). Either I am missing something or that claim is wrong. As a side note, a call to dh_numpy should be added to debian/rules in python-scientific (as noted by lintian); in the present case it would however not have helped, as evidenced by the above paragraph. -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Maintainer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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