Ubuntu
python-scientific package

python-netcdf does not depend on python-scientific, but does need it

Bug #5950 reported by Nick Barkas
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
python-scientific (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
MOTU Science

Bug Description

It is possible to install python-netcdf via apt-get without installing python-scientific, but python-netcdf will not work without python-scientific installed. The example code in /usr/share/doc/python-netcdf/examples/netcdf_demo.py does not run, and the particular problem can also be seen by just trying to import from Scientific.IO.NetCDF:

>>> from Scientific.IO.NetCDF import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named Scientific.IO.NetCDF

Installing python-scientific manually resolves the issue. This problem was found to exist both in Ubuntu 5.10 AMD64 and Debian 3.1 i386.

Chris Peterman (kyral)
Changed in python-scientific:
assignee: nobody → motuscience
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Thierry Moisan (thierryn) wrote : dapper patch

fix the problem for dapper by adding python-scientific to the dependancies of python-netcdf

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Thierry Moisan (thierryn) wrote : better patch

added some stuff

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LaserJock (laserjock) wrote :

This is not a bug since the module is in python-scientific and python-scientific depends on python-netcdf. See http://bugs.debian.org/266658 for more details.

Changed in python-scientific:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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