[Python-modules-team] Bug#691960: matplotlib: examples directory set wrong

[Julian Taylor]

Package: matplotlib
Version: 1.1.1~rc2-1
Severity: normal

the examples data directory in the default package configuration of
matplotlib includes an /etc which breaks all examples.

python
/usr/share/doc/python-matplotlib-doc/examples/pylab_examples/image_demo3.py
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
"/etc/'/usr/share/matplotlib/sampledata'/lena.jpg"

>>> from matplotlib import rcParams
>>> rcParams['examples.directory']
 "/etc/'/usr/share/matplotlib/sampledata'"

forwarded from ubuntu, affects testing.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/matplotlib/+bug/1073443

it also seems to affect experimental, but there 'examples.directory' is
not set at all and it searches in:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/mpl-data/sample_data/lena.jpg