Bug#206691: [matplotlib-devel] matlab_helpers and screen dpi/figsize refactored

[Jochen Voss <voss@seehuhn.de>]

Hello,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:10:33AM -0000, Jeremy O'Donoghue wrote:
> By the way, I noticed on the users list that people are asking for Debian
> packages. I'm quite happy to do one, but would rather wait until things
> have calmed down - I'll target the 4.0 release for a .deb on the
> Sourceforge site.
> 
> We'll have to think about how the Debian package dependencies are worked
> out. My inclination is that we should require appropriate support for at
> least one backend, and suggest the others. Something like:
> 
> Required packages:    python2.3-numeric, python2.3-numeric-ext, fonttools
>                       python2.3-gtk | libgd2-dev | libwxpython
> Recommended packages: python2.3-gtk, libgd2-dev, libwxpython
> 
> This would allow a Debian user to install matplotlib for only one backend
> (e.g. gd2 only for a webserver without X), but recommend packages to
> support other backends.
I think that Marco Presi <zufus@debian.org> claims to be
working on this.  Maybe you can coordinate with him.
See

    http://bugs.debian.org/206691

for details.

> I can probably put simple packages for TTFQuery
> and gdmodule , which could be 'suggested'.
At http://seehuhn.de/debian/ you can find a python-ttfquery
package, which I produced for my own personal use.  If
anything else in the Debian archive would use it, I probably
could upload it to the archive.

Best regards,
Jochen
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