[Numpy-discussion] Numpy regression in 1.6.2 in deducing the dtype for record array

[Scott Sinclair]

On 5 July 2012 08:10, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > I'd like to point you to this bug report just reported to Debian:
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679948
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>> > It would be really awesome if you could give a look and comment if the
>> > proposed fix would be appropriate.
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>> Did you have a chance to look at this email?
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> The commit identified by Yaroslav looks like the right one. It just needs to
> be backported to 1.6.x.

Except that cherry picking the commit to the 1.6.x branch doesn't
apply cleanly. It'll take some work by someone familiar with that part
of the code..

Cheers,
Scott