[Python-modules-team] Bug#625150: matplotlib: FTBFS: ln: creating symbolic link `/build/user-matplotlib_0.99.3-1-amd64-C4ZThE/matplotlib-0.99.3/debian/python-matplotlib-doc/usr/share/doc/python-matplotlib-doc/html/_static/jquery.js': No such file or directory

[Stefano Rivera]

tag 625150 + patch
forwarded 625150 https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/104
thanks

> > ln -sf /usr/share/javascript/jquery/jquery.js \
> > 		/build/user-matplotlib_0.99.3-1-amd64-C4ZThE/matplotlib-0.99.3/debian/python-matplotlib-doc/usr/share/doc/python-matplotlib-doc/html/_static/jquery.js
> > ln: creating symbolic link `/build/user-matplotlib_0.99.3-1-amd64-C4ZThE/matplotlib-0.99.3/debian/python-matplotlib-doc/usr/share/doc/python-matplotlib-doc/html/_static/jquery.js': No such file or directory

Hi Nikolaus (2011.05.04_17:59:19_+0200)
> Hmm. My guess is that Sphinx stopped installing jquery.js into
> doc/build/html/_static/.

No, the documentation building does no error checking. jquery.js wasn't
installed because the documentation building failed (and dropped into a
debugger).

Looks like "formats" in lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py was a
unicode rather than byte-string. Not entirely sure why, but I proposed
using basestring to upstream [0], maybe someone there will have a better
idea.

[0]: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/104

Not applying this yet, because I'd like to see what the upstream thinks,
and work out what caused this in the first place.

Sandro: This code has completely changed in 1.x, I suspect it won't be
a blocker for bringing 1.x to unstable.

SR

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