Bug#943924: reducing matplotlib2 build-depends.

2019-11-12 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
By itself, removing those dependencies reduces the big tangle [0] from 148 packages to 141, the freed ones being: ipywidgets pyqt5 pep8 autopep8 xcffib xlwt cairocffi. (Note that "not in a tangle" means "no *circular* dependencies", *not* "leaf / can be removed immediately".) There may also b

Bug#943924: reducing matplotlib2 build-depends.

2019-11-12 Thread peter green
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 not depend on. python-backports.functools-lru-cache python-cairocffi pytho