[Python-modules-team] Bug#936745: reducing matplotlib2 build-depends.

[Sandro Tosi]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:24 AM peter green <plugwash at p10link.net> wrote:
> I am guessing that many of these are to get testsuite coverage for optional features and are not strictly needed for the build, while testing stuff is nice I don't think it's vital for software that is on it's way out. I tried removing all of the aforementioned packages except python-setuptools and python-kiwisolver from the build-depends (and I uninstalled all python 2 packages from the chroot where I was doing my test builds before I installed the remaining build-depends).

well, i dont think it's a good reason to just stop testing complex
software tho. some of those dependencies are required so that mpl can
build extensions (in particular for the GUI backends) so if you remove
them, the mpl build system is smart enough to disable those
extensions, resulting in a graphic library without any GUI bindings to
work with. that doesnt sound ideal.

I'm gonna go thru some of the dependencies and will see if i can
remove some, in particular now that i've remored the -doc package from
the git repo, but i'm not gonna get rid the whole unittest suite.

thanks for your work on this, and to nudge me into looking deeper at mpl2 deps

Regards,
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