Thanks Steppke, I tried to include upstream's fix for that specific
into my ppa - but it would not work (see ~ppa2 and ~ppa3). I included
the patch, the patch is applied, but scripting still does not work. If
anyone else wants to take a stab at it, I'd appreciate it. That
specific bug has been around in Ubuntu for atleast two releases.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:25 PM, ASteppke <email address hidden> wrote:
> Sorry, just found out that the Python bug is already fixed in the
> upstream SVN release. So manually fixing it with the information from
> Bug #435918 resolves the problem with the 0.9.7.8 version from
> https://launchpad.net/~showard314/+archive/ppa under Ubuntu 9.10.
>
> --
> New upstream release qtiplot 0.9.7.8 (sync with debian and fix for debian's FTBFS)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374543
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> Status in “qtiplot” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “qtiplot” package in Debian: New
>
> Bug description:
> Sources: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/QtiPlot?content=14826
>
> 2009/06/22 - QtiPlot 0.9.7.8 released. Special thanks to Olivier Dubreuil for his bug reports and suggestions. Changes:
>
> * Slightly modified the Qwt 5.2 library in order to allow painting of 2D curves using floating point coordinates, resulting in a more accurate/smoother represantation of the data (the modified source code of this library is shipped with the QtiPlot archive in the "3rdparty/qwt" folder).
> * Implemented waterfall plots.
> * Added a powerfull exploration tool for 2D plots combining panning and continuous zooming.
> * Improved the export of 2D plots to the EMF format on Windows. Now when you copy a plot window or a layer, the images are stored to the clipboard as metafiles using EmfEngine.
> * Improved contour line plots. Now the user has the possibility to:
> o use the formula defined for the data source matrix in order to calculate Z values, resulting in smoother contour lines
> o display text labels for the Z contour levels
> o define custom Z levels
> o define custom colors and pen widths for each Z level
> * Improved Python scripting for 2D curves. Added scripting support for:
> o image/contour line plots (spectrograms)
> o histograms
> o waterfall plots
> * Fixed crash when calling newNote() in a Python script with Python 2.6 (thanks to Knut Franke).
> * Improved color handling for curves/symbols in a 2D plot:
> o the user can define custom colors.
> o it is straightforward to restrict all colors to a gray scale or to define indexed colors via the "Palette" plot layer context menu (Feature Request #00381).
> * Improved data fitting capabilities:
> o fixed fitting with user defined functions containing removable singularities.
> o improved display range of prediction and confidence bands.
> o implemented Feature Request #004587: "Fit through zero".
> o added planck_wavelength fit plugin, thanks to Knut Franke.
> * Improved the display of analytic 2D functions: in case of logarithmic x-scales the values are calculated using equidistant data points on the log scale.
> * Improved 2D plot layers context menu.
> * Fixed file saving for filenames containing dot signes.
> * Added Chinese translation thanks to Fox (Chen Zhang).
>