On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 12:30, Francesco Ballarin <francesco.balla...@unicatt.it> wrote: > ... > indeed in there I have > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gedit.py > and dpkg -S /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gedit.py shows > gedit: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gedit.py
Ok; thank you for checking that. That does seem to explain the problem, and hints at a possible workaround (removing the package(s) that contain the overrides from the system.. not a universal solution). > Feel free to re-assign to gedit, or to close altogether if fixing this is not > worth the effort. We have found a reasonable solution in fenics-dolfinx, and > we > are happy to keep the environment variable for future builds. Multiple packages in Debian include similar gobject-introspection overrides -- and the decision to include those files has been discussed and is sensible[1], I think. The code in matplot is written with the intent to detect failures to import gobject-introspection (aka gi), and so the bug is somehow related to both matplotlib and Debian's packaging of the override files. I think a path forward could be to patch the matplotlib package in Debian so that the presence of a dist-packages/gi directory -- perhaps only created implicitly for the overrides -- is insufficient for the Python import of gi to be successful. If we can write such a patch in a way that would be suitable for other distributions (I do not know how they ship override files), then perhaps it could also be sent upstream for their consideration. [1] - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754670 On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 12:30, Francesco Ballarin <francesco.balla...@unicatt.it> wrote: > > Package: python3-matplotlib > Followup-For: Bug #1101565 > X-Debbugs-Cc: francesco.balla...@unicatt.it, j...@jp-hosting.net > > Hi James, > indeed in there I have > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gedit.py > and dpkg -S /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gedit.py shows > gedit: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gedit.py > > Feel free to re-assign to gedit, or to close altogether if fixing this is not > worth the effort. We have found a reasonable solution in fenics-dolfinx, and > we > are happy to keep the environment variable for future builds. > > Thanks, > Francesco
