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Upgrade numPy to 1.6.1 for Oneiric?

Asked by Patrick Goetz

Any chance we can start out Oneiric with an up-to-date version of numPy? If not 1.6.1, then at least 1.6.0?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Log a bug stating what security fixes are in the new version. If they are significant then it will be included

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#2

I recommend that you file a bug against python-numpy in Ubuntu (see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs) to request that it be updated to 1.6.0 for Oneiric (or to 1.6.1, if it is reasonable to expect that 1.6.1 will be stable by Oneiric's release date).

python-numpy has not reached version 1.6.0 in Debian unstable yet, so this is not a matter of importing a package after Oneiric's (recent) Debian import freeze; it would have to manually packaged for Ubuntu and go through testing.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#3

Sorry actionparsnip, I didn't see your post.

But please note that version 1.6.0 (or 1.6.1 if it's read) could potentially be included even if it does not add security or major stability fixes. New Ubuntu releases can get software with new features, and I don't think we're too far in Oneiric's development process for that.

Furthermore, when a new upstream version fixes security or major stability bugs, that doesn't qualify it for packaging in a stable Ubuntu release (or even necessarily for an upcoming release)--it just qualifies **the fixes** for backporting into Ubuntu's downstream version.

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