On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 19:52, Mauro Cavalcanti <mauro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I must say I feel truly honoured. I never expected my humble complaint
> would merit the attention of one of the Debian maintainters!

eheh, well, we are not some sort of gods or what: we talk to mortals now :D

> I will follow the directions you provided - as I understood, they will
> result in the creation of a deb package for the latest version of
> Matplotlib? This will be great!

Yes: Ubuntu is a Debian-based distribution, so once you'll have the
deb files (built on your ubuntu box) it enough to

sudo dpkg -i python-matplotlib*.deb

and it will install them

> I will report the results to you (and the Matplotlib-users lists) as
> soon as possible.

Great. The only problem I see is that there are a lot of caveats in
building packages, and you can face some corner case (I couldn't cope
in my uber-fast introduction to deb building :) ).

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

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