Upstream package maintainer dropped it because GTK2 is deprecated: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889137#10
Of course, the practical upshot of that decision is that Debian Sid and Ubuntu >= 17.10 ship an unusable gtkcairo matplotlib backend.
Upstream package maintainer dropped it because GTK2 is deprecated: /bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 889137# 10
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Of course, the practical upshot of that decision is that Debian Sid and Ubuntu >= 17.10 ship an unusable gtkcairo matplotlib backend.