When trying to rebuild debian packages for lates CVS I noticed it fails to build with python-2.1. When "byte compiling" scipy_core python complains: ---- /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/scipy_distutils/system_info.py:770: SyntaxWarning: local name 'magic' in 'get_atlas_version' shadows use of 'magic' as global in nested scope 'atlas_version_c' def get_atlas_version(**config): ---- And when trying to build scipy it fails with: ---- building extension "atlas_version" sources creating build creating build/src global name 'magic' is not defined FOUND: include_dirs = ['/usr/include'] language = c library_dirs = ['/usr/lib'] libraries = ['f77blas', 'cblas', 'atlas'] define_macros = [('NO_ATLAS_INFO', 2)] Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 125, in ? setup_package(ignore_packages) File "setup.py", line 98, in setup_package parent_path=local_path) File "setup.py", line 59, in get_packages config = setup_module.configuration(*args) File "/home/jfonseca/projects/debian/scipy/SciPy-0.2.1_253.3737/Lib/integrate/setup_integrate.py", line 23, in configuration linpack_lite = ('linpack_lite_src',{'sources':local_glob('linpack_lite','*.f')}) File "/home/jfonseca/projects/debian/scipy/SciPy-0.2.1_253.3737/Lib/integrate/setup_integrate.py", line 17, in local_glob return glob.glob(os.path.join(*((local_path,)+names))) NameError: global name 'local_path' is not defined ---- This must have been caused by some recent change in scipy_distutils which violates python 2.1 syntax. Python 2.2 and 2.3 build fine. Note that if there is no interest to support python 2.1 in scipy, I can drop those packages just as well. BTW, the reason scipy is not yet on debian official repository is that no sponsor replied my request... I'll incorporate some fixes resulting from the user feedback I received and try again. Regards, Jose Fonseca