On 31/10/25 10:00 pm, James Addison wrote: > Thanks, Alexandre, > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 17:46 Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Trixie has been released. >> We/you can proceed with the plan to remove >> the current unpatched/verbatim /etc/matplotlibrc >> > > I'll file a python3-matplotlib bugreport for this cleanup after spending a > little time to trace the history of the mpl-data directory referenced in > the same patch. So, as per the documentation https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/explain/customizing.html#customizing-with-matplotlibrc-files
It searches for 4 places. The 4th place is actually "INSTALL/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc, where INSTALL is something like /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages" Since upstream kind of supports having matplotlibrc as a global setting, I am having second thoughts if we should just keep `/etc/matplotlibrc` as that is the right place for system specific config files to reside. We are also installing /usr/share/matplotlib/matplotlib.conf/matplotlibrc but I am unsure how useful this is. Could someone advice? Best, Nilesh
