[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#932442: pondus: graph not shown - matplotlib not available

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

thanks for the bug report.

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 01:28:14PM +0200, sujag wrote:
> 
> Console output:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
>     self.run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pondus/gui/window_main.py", line 359,
> in run
>     import_mpl()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pondus/gui/window_main.py", line 374,
> in import_mpl
>     from pondus.gui.dialog_plot import PlotDialog
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pondus/gui/dialog_plot.py", line 17,
> in <module>
>     from matplotlib.backends.backend_gtkagg import FigureCanvasGTKAgg \
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-
> packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtkagg.py", line 12, in <module>
>     from matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk import (
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py",
> line 38, in <module>
>     from matplotlib.backends.backend_gdk import RendererGDK, FigureCanvasGDK
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_gdk.py",
> line 29, in <module>
>     from matplotlib.backends._backend_gdk import pixbuf_get_pixels_array
> ImportError: No module named _backend_gdk
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> graph is shown

The package pondus Recoomends python-matplotlib.  It seems you
forecfully prevented installation of Recommends.  I'm not using pondus
myself and do not know whether it should rather be in the list of
Depends but the former maintainer Eike Nicklas (who is also upstream)
has most probably considered this the right dependency.

I'd say if you prevent installation of Recommends you need to deal
with this kind of things on your own and its not really a bug inside
the package, isn't it?

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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