[Python-modules-team] Bug#750630: Acknowledgement (python-matplotlib: Default backend 'tkagg' broken)

[Matthias Liertzer]

I just noticed that python itself nowadays depends on the default 
installation of tcl/tk. Hence, matplotlib should do the same as it is 
using the python tk interface.

Best, Matthias

On 06/08/2014 12:30 PM, Matthias Liertzer wrote:
> The bug is caused by the new multiarch version of tk, which has the
> effect that matplotlib's setup file no longer finds the include header
> tk.h .
>
> There are two possible routes to resolve the bug:
>
> 1) Depend on tk-dev (matplotlib should build fine with tk8.6-dev), which
> contains /usr/lib/tkConfig.sh, and not on tk8.5-dev
>
> 2) Use the patch contained in the ubuntu package, which I have also
> attached to this mail.
>
> Best,
> Matthias
>
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