Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.0rc2 is tagged and uploaded

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

On 09/20/2012 01:16 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
>> I have tagged and created a tarball for 1.2.0rc2.  The githash is
>> 656c88f3e546.  The tarball is on the github download page here:
> Thanks for the release!
>
> I'm testing the Debian packaging, and I noticed that the file
> lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlib.conf disappeared between 1.1.1 and
> 1.2.0rc1. That was a sample file that was nice to ship to users to
> have an idea what can be customized. We were also shipping it into
> /usr/share/matplotlib/ so a first configuration was already provided
> to users. Do you have something to suggest to restore the situation? I
> don't know if you like to add the file back (maybe in a different
> location) or if we should point users to the doc and stop.
>
The source of that file has always been `matplotlibrc.template` at the 
root of the source tree.  That file is copied (by the build process) to 
lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc, but it doesn't exist in the raw 
source tree.  I'm not sure what matplotlib.conf is or was -- but I hope 
matplotlibrc.template fits the bill for the Debian package's purposes.

Mike