Bug#942538: reducing matplotlib2 build-depends.

2019-11-13 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
Hi Sandro! On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 09:10:49PM -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote: > well, i dont think it's a good reason to just stop testing complex > software tho. some of those dependencies are required so that mpl can > build extensions (in particular for the GUI backends) so if you remove > them, the

Bug#942538: reducing matplotlib2 build-depends.

2019-11-12 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:24 AM peter green wrote: > I am guessing that many of these are to get testsuite coverage for optional > features and are not strictly needed for the build, while testing stuff is > nice I don't think it's vital for software that is on it's way out. I tried > removing

Bug#942538: reducing matplotlib2 build-depends.

2019-11-12 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
Hi all, On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 02:13:51PM +, peter green wrote: > matplotlib2 seems to be an important node in the python2 removal/reduction > problem (and the qt4 removal problem). I have noticed there are a > substantial number of python module packages that it build-depends on but > does n