new version of matplotlib available

The feature freeze is in place since today. If you get a feature freeze exception for matplotlib, then I will update the package.

please look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess for a how this process works. I am setting this bug to incomplete, once you have the proper documentation, please set the bug to new.

Thanks!
Steve

If anyone is looking at working on this, Debian is already working on this (see below).

Subject: Bug#541146: [Python-modules-team] Bug#541146: python-matplotlib: 0.99 version released upstream

Hi Michael,

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 00:25, Michael S.
Gilbert<michael.s.gilbert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> package: python-matplotlib
> severity: wishlist
>
> a new version of matplotlib has been released in the last few days [0].
> this is a request for this to be packaged for debian. thanks!

I'm aware of the new release, and I'm already working on updating
Debian package.

Regards,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi

would be quite good if there were a package ready. Unsubscribing motu-release for the moment, please resubscribe if there's something to review.

Thanks,
   Stefan.

Attaching unified diff between matplotlib-0.98.5.3/CHANGELOG and matplotlib-0.99.0/CHANGELOG

I created a source package for 0.99 using the instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete#Ingredients
I tried building the binary package using pbuilder but it failed (for both the current version and the new upstream version) pbuilder seemed to have trouble because it couldn't satisfy dependencies for the "pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy" package.
I was able to build the package using dpkg-buildpackage, install it and run the tests in examples/tests.

For what it's worth, the main new features are:
- 3D plotting toolkit
- Axis grid toolkit
- Axis spine placement functionality

for details see: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/whats_new.html

I would like to see this package included in Karmic and am willing to help out although i'm probably a novice when it comes to package management.

i just attached a branch i'm working on for this. The remaining patch has to be looked at, but i ran out of time tonight. Feel free to work on it if you want to.

It was just uploaded to Debian, so people should test with that package. Once you've got som positive test results, you can resubscribe motu-release.

Updated package is in Debian now and it's just a trivial merge for Ubuntu (most of our diff was incorporated). I did build, install, and test the package. I reran some data analysis scripts I've used and plotted with previous versions and they ran fine with 0.99.

My vote is we go ahead. +1

Scott, beat me to it. I built the debian package and it looks all good. Is it a merge or a sync? Attached is the diff of the debian and ubuntu /debian directories. It seems like all of our changes have been included upstream.

Here is the diff for Ubuntu:

matplotlib (0.99.0-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #419885), remaining changes:
    - Explicitly depend on python-tk as workaround for LP #301007; drop these
      changes if an auto backend discovery is implemented by upstream.

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:13:37 +0200

+1 from me, please go ahead.

This bug was fixed in the package matplotlib - 0.99.0-1ubuntu1

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matplotlib (0.99.0-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #419885), remaining changes:
    - Explicitly depend on python-tk as workaround for LP #301007; drop these
      changes if an auto backend discovery is implemented by upstream.

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:13:37 +0200