Bug#742338: src:expeyes: Removal of expeyes and pygrace to remove grace and t1lib

2014-03-24 Thread Ajith Kumar
Dear Georges, I think you can just remove the dependancy on grace for the time being. It won't affect the usage except that that particular feature will fail. I think it is imported inside a try block already, else we could add that. We should avoid its removal at any cost. with regards

Bug#742338: src:expeyes: Removal of expeyes and pygrace to remove grace and t1lib

2014-03-23 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 01:00:08 +0100 Georges Khaznadar georges.khazna...@free.fr wrote: Hello Neil, Keep the bug and the mailing list in the CC. I'm not on the mailing list and the bug needs to contain a record of the discussions around removal. I began to watch grace's source: making it use

Bug#742338: src:expeyes: Removal of expeyes and pygrace to remove grace and t1lib

2014-03-23 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Dear Neil, Neil Williams a écrit : On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 01:00:08 +0100 [...] I began to watch grace's source: making it use freetype seems a huge task. Modifying expeyes to use qtiplot rather than xmgrace is easier. I made it successfully for one script; it may require some thought to

Bug#742338: src:expeyes: Removal of expeyes and pygrace to remove grace and t1lib

2014-03-22 Thread Neil Williams
Package: src:expeyes Version: 3.1.8 Severity: important grace is RC buggy due to a dependency on t1lib and using an old embedded copy of t1lib is not a useful way to fix problems with grace. Therefore, I'm seeking the removal of grace - in order to do that, pygrace will need to be removed and

Bug#742338: src:expeyes: Removal of expeyes and pygrace to remove grace and t1lib

2014-03-22 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Dear Neil, the community working with expEYES relies on the publication of working packages in Debian and Ubuntu. A removal of expEYES from Debian would be a serious issue. I shall try to patch expEYES to make use of preferences, and modify buttons which export data to Xmgrace so they can export

Bug#742338: src:expeyes: Removal of expeyes and pygrace to remove grace and t1lib

2014-03-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:22:49 +0100 Georges Khaznadar georges.khazna...@free.fr wrote: Dear Neil, the community working with expEYES relies on the publication of working packages in Debian and Ubuntu. A removal of expEYES from Debian would be a serious issue. I shall try to patch expEYES