Package: python3-dateutil Followup-For: Bug #1003044 Control: tags -1 moreinfo
On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:35:16 +0000, James Addison wrote: > The repro step attempted was to open a Python interpreter session and to > enter: > from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter > > (that succeeded and did not emit any output) OK: that wasn't a hugely useful comment; a more thorough date formatting example would have been more convincing. ...the 'date_index_formatter.py'[1] example code included in the 'matplotlib' source is a better candidate: and it also completes successfully without errors when run using version 2.8.2-1 of the python3-dateutil package. Given that python3-dateutil is depended-upon by a reasonably large number of other packages, I'm reluctant to reduce the severity of this bug, but at the same time, it's unclear what the extent of the breakage is here. [1] - https://sources.debian.org/src/matplotlib/3.6.3-1/examples/ticks/date_index_formatter.py/