Hi Alex, James, all, Seems matplotlib migrated to testing now. I was thinking if it makes sense to do an incremental 3.10.1+dfsg1-3 release.
There are 2 things that bother me that could be fixed in this release: 1. matplotlib has historically shipped /etc/matploblibrc to force tkagg and patched the code to use this if there are no user defined rc files see [1]. However, this was not handled properly via maintscripts so that'd mean over-writing user-modified /etc/matplotlibrc. The backend detection logic is now better and I feel we should get rid of the "yield '/etc/matplotlibrc'" in [1] and also stop shipping the conffile both and add in a rm_conffile to remove previously installed /etc/matplotlibrc. Probably also a d/NEWS to inform the sysadmin that this no longer works. It does not make sense to me for a python lib to have a conffile. 2. matplotlib fails when there is empty gi directory. This is reported in #1101565 and James has kindly provided a patch (thank you!). [1] https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/matplotlib/-/blob/master/debian/patches/20_matplotlibrc_path_search_fix.patch?ref_type=heads Please let me know what you think? Best, Nilesh
