[Python-modules-team] Bug#655014: Bug#655014: python-numpy: build without matplotlib (bootstrapping)

[Thorsten Glaser]

Sandro Tosi dixit:

>yes, maybe: but why would I want to do that? numpy needs mpl for doc
>graphs, so it has to be there.

Yes, unless you don’t care about the documentation. Which is arch:all
anyway, so it need not be built on the buildds.

>what trend? any references?

Sorry, none right now.

>why do you need it? some arch bootstraping (you didn't say)?

Almost bootstrapping: both python-numpy and matplotlib are
uninstallable on m68k (due to missing two Python version
changes), and there is a circular dependency (versioned on
the matplotlib side). Since python-numpy was the first of
these two packages I looked at, and it seems it can be built
just fine without matplotlib, I thought to ask for instructions
how to do that. (dh short rules files are almost as unintuitive
as cdbs to me so I was unable to figure it out myself.)

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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