Hi Marc, On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 02:53, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mikhail Gusarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Please allow sphinx 0.4.2-1 to move into testing, as it fixes RC bug >> (#492732) which prevents building documentation for python-matplotlib. >> >> 0.4.2 is a minor upstream release made especially for fixing this >> bug. The only other packaging change is getting rid of bundled jQuery in >> binary package. > > But there are plenty of upstream changes. Please extract the patch > needed to fix #492732 and upload a fixed version based on 0.4.1-2 > (currently in lenny) to testing-proposed-updates. This new upstream > release won't be unblocked.
I'd like to discuss, based on the above comment, what I should do about matplotlib. Currently the archive has 0.98.1 mpl version, and we're working closely with upstream to let a new upstream release into Debian. The real goal for the new release is bugfixing and mainly documentation. We missed 0.98.2 version because of some glitches in doc generation, and we have reached yesterday the consensus on releasing 0.98.3 (they wait for my confirmation the debian package is working fine). I got the package almost ready in svn, and the great improvement is we are now able to generate matplotlib documentation at build time, and ship it in -doc package along with the binary one. It's a lot of doc, and given the possibility to users to have it on their system is really a plus (given the lots of API mpl has), and I think lenny users deserve this. In order to build such doc we need Sphinx 0.4.2 (due to changes in last version of sphinx, used in mpl docbase), and it's really impossible to backport the changes from 0.98.3 to 0.98.1 (the one in the archive). I'd like to know if I'm allowed to upload 0.98.3 version in the archive (when the sphinx situation will be fixed). Please note that upstreams are really responsive and they have waited for Debian to be comfortable with a new release before actually announce it in the last months. Thanks for your attention, Sandro -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
