python3-bumps includes /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bumps/dream/_compiled.so

$ ls -l /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bumps/dream/_compiled.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Oct  1  2025 /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bumps/dream/_compiled.so -> ../../../../bumps/random123_compiled.so

$ stat -L /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bumps/dream/_compiled.so
stat: cannot statx '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bumps/dream/_compiled.so': No such file or directory

That seems broken.

Stefano

This .so is for an optional alternate optimiser (bumps is an interface
to various different optimisers for numerical fitting problems).

The optional optimiser is compiled and included in an arch:any package
(bumps-private-libs) while bumps itself is pure Python and arch:all.

bumps-private-libs is in the Recommends of python3-bumps; unfortunately,
bumps-private-libs is not available on all architectures. It could be an
arch-dependent Depends but it's an optional component (and an
arch-specific Depends means keeping an arch list in sync in two
different places).

The symlink could move into the bumps-private-libs package, but that is
only a cosmetic fix - the failure for `CDLL` in
`bumps/dream/compiled.py` would be basically the same, and we'd replace
this bug with a "missing depends on $arch" bug instead.

I'm not sure what the nicest solution is -- the current arrangement is
what we thought was the best option at the time.

Hi Stuart (2026.05.19_00:50:00_+0000)

OK, that's much better than I thought :)

I was investigating .so Python extensions, and this just looked broken.

Stefano