Hi Stuart,

thanks for answering.

> Thanks for reporting that the autopkgtest fails; ci.d.n is not currently 
> testing packages in unstable and so I'd not seen that this was a problem yet.

Hmmm, but this is the reason why texlive-base is blocked, according to
https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=texlive-base
        Migration status for texlive-base (2019.20191208-4 to 2019.20200218-1):
        BLOCKED: Rejected/violates migration policy/introduces a regression

> Teaching pyxplot about these new specials is the right thing to do here. The 

Well, in principle, but the package seems abandon from upstream, do you
want to implement these new things?

> autopkgtests aren't broken, they are correctly catching that pyxplot is 
> generating lots of nasty warnings that the user should not see.
> 
> I'll take a look at this soon; it's easy enough to make the header special a 

I have asked the LaTeX team whether one can disable the loading of the 
        l3backend-XXXXX.pro
files, which could easily be integrated into the source code (that I
checked already in the source code of pyxplot).

Best

Norbert

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