Re: Matplotlib 3.10.0 for trixie?

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