Re: Numpy API change?
[Jakub Wilk, 2010-07-28]
> * Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>, 2010-07-28, 09:42:
>> JFY(and others')I, with numpy -4 upload of today, we start shipping
>> dh_numpy and pydist file: so if you use dh_python2, you can leverage
>> the pydist file and call "dh_python2 --depends numpy" (or even
>> dh_python2 alone if numpy is in requires.txt);
>
> Does it mean that if someone uses dh_python2 and have numpy in
> requires.txt, he'll get versioned dependency on python-numpy, even if
> it's not needed in most cases?
yes
if it's in requires.txt shipped by binary package (and that's what
dh_python2 checks) then without python-numpy in Depends it will fail at
runtime (on pkg_resources.require('numpy'))
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