Re: RFS: matplotlib 0.90.1-3
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej@certik.cz> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Eike Nicklas <eike@ephys.de> wrote:
> > Hi Ondrej et al.,
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Yes, I read that bug. There are more problems with matplotlib - it is
> > > not lintian clean,
> > > it still uses Numerics and numarray besides numpy (I don't know if
> > > this is a feature or a bug),
> > >
> >
> > I think upstream deprecated Numerics and numarray and the latest
> > version only uses numpy.
> >
> > Changelog excerpts:
> >
> > 2007-06-01 Deprecate Numeric and numarray for use as numerix.
> > 2007-06-02 Released 0.90.1 at revision 3352
> > 2007-06-07 Disable build of numarray and Numeric extensions for
> > internal MPL use and the numerix layer.
> > 2007-07-19 replaced the Python code in numerix/ by a minimal wrapper
> > around numpy that explicitly mentions all symbols that need
> > to be addressed for further numpification
> > [...]
> > and only numpy is mentioned in the current README.
> >
> > Anyway, as a matplotlib user, I am happy that you want to fix the
> > current issues, but sadly I currently don't have the time to help with
> > that.
>
> It shouldn't be a big problem and I'll do it, as I also use and need it. We
> are actually only waiting for an approval from the matplotlib maintainers.
Anyway, this seems it will take quite some time before it gets
resolved, so I compiled the fixed packages for i386 and amd64 and put
them here to my repository:
http://debian.certik.cz/
Ondrej
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