Bug 259444 – Please stabilize dev-python/gnuplot-py-1.8

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto 2009-02-18 04:25:16 UTC]

It was released in 2008-05-02 and introduced in Portage in 2008-07-05. It received a bugfix in 2008-10-06 [1]. Searching for bugs changed since 2008-10-07, we find only two bugs [2]:
#237626, closed with WORKSFORME in 2008-10-10 and
#242290 (a keyword request) closed in 2009-01-04

gnuplot-py-1.8 is included in Debian stable [3]

The news file cites this improvements:

* hardcopy allows for terminal='svg' (using a patch from Spyros Blanas)

* Use with_ instead of with as that will be a python keyword in the
  future.

* Added an option "filename" to Data and GridData in PlotItems.py.
  This allows saving the data to a permanent, rather than temporary,
  file.  (Patch contributed by Matthew Fulmer.)

* Added a 'pdf' terminal definition (using a patch from Jim Kleckner).

* Added close() and __del__() methods to the Gnuplot class.  This
  might help with some cases of premature temporary file deletion.
  (Suggested by Jim Kleckner.)


[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240214
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=gnuplot-py&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=2008-10-07&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
[3] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/python-gnuplot


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto 2009-02-18 04:39:26 UTC]

You might want to look at http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-gnuplot/python-gnuplot_1.8-1.diff.gz, which, AFAIK, is the Debian modification to the original gnuplug-py-1.8.
A bit that caught my attention was this:

--- python-gnuplot-1.8.orig/_Gnuplot.py
+++ python-gnuplot-1.8/_Gnuplot.py
@@ -184,7 +184,8 @@
         self._clear_queue()
         self.debug = debug
         self.plotcmd = 'plot'
-        self('set terminal %s' % (gp.GnuplotOpts.default_term,))
+	# disabled: causes malfunction of mouse control and hotkeys
+        #self('set terminal %s' % (gp.GnuplotOpts.default_term,))
 
     def close(self):
         # This may cause a wait for the gnuplot process to finish

We should test if this is indeed the case and maybe apply this patch (but please don't ask me to do it, I am still not very familiar with gnuplot-py).

[Comment 2 Wormo (RETIRED) 2009-02-18 20:37:57 UTC]

Thanks for the report, assigning to maintainers.

[Comment 3 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) 2009-02-26 10:22:20 UTC]

Please do.

[Comment 4 Ferris McCormick (RETIRED) 2009-02-26 14:06:22 UTC]

Sparc stable (this has been around for 7 months now).

[Comment 5 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2009-02-26 15:06:16 UTC]

ia64 is not stable, s390/x86 stable

[Comment 6 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2009-03-02 16:40:14 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 7 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2009-03-02 16:40:54 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 8 Thomas Anderson (tanderson) (RETIRED) 2009-03-09 12:22:05 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 9 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2009-03-20 13:44:05 UTC]

Marked ppc stable. Closing since we're the last arch.

[Comment 10 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2009-03-20 14:20:30 UTC]

ppc stable, closing