[Python-modules-team] matplotlib in experimental

[Nikolaus Rath]

On 05/04/2011 03:12 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 20:33, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can you tell me what needs to happen for matplotlib 1.0 from
>> experimental to enter unstable and (eventually) testing? Are there any
>> critical showstoppers?
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=625150 - patches are welcome

I'd like to help, but I don't quite understand the problem yet. This bug
is against matplotlib 0.99, so wouldn't it be enough to just upload
matplotlib 1.0 to unstable to fix this?

I also tried to build matplotlib 1.0 myself, to see if that still has
the bug. I checked out the most recent debian/ dir from
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/python-modules/packages/matplotlib/trunk/ and
extracted the most recent matplotlib-1.0.0.tar.gz available from
upstream. However:

$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
[...]
 dpkg-source --before-build matplotlib-1.0.0
dpkg-source: warning: patches have not been applied, applying them now
(use --no-preparation to override)
dpkg-source: info: applying 10_build_fix.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 20_matplotlibrc_path_search_fix.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 30_disable_sample_downloads.patch
patching file matplotlibrc.template
Hunk #1 FAILED at 377.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file matplotlibrc.template.rej
dpkg-source: error: LC_ALL=C patch -t -F 0 -N -p1 -u -V never -g0 -E -b
-B .pc/30_disable_sample_downloads.patch/ <
matplotlib-1.0.0/debian/patches/30_disable_sample_downloads.patch gave
error exit status 1


Where do I get the matplotlib source that's supposed to go along with
this debian/ directory?


Thanks,

   -Nikolaus

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