Hallo! I've uploaded new debian source files to scipy.org, have a look at http://www.scipy.org/Members/RalfA/packages/Debian-woody-DEB/ For compilation on woody release you have to compile and install python2.3(-numeric) from the unstable tree. Or modify the debian/control and debian/rules files to omit the python2.3 packages - or give me a hint... I hope, that someone will test this on sid -- I can't. And I'm aware of the lintian messages... Because f2py needs distutils, I've also made an appropriate package for initial use. So, you have to build and install pythonX-distutils and then pythonX-f2py -- substitute X with '', '2.1', '2.2', '2.3' -- before you start with the big rest. I tried to make one big scipy source package. After packaging and compilation (see hints in above given URL) you should get pythonX-scipy-core, -scipy, -weave and -chaco. Ralf.