On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote: > > yes, it's the version I'm going to use for the RC, that's because > version 1.0.1~rc1-1 is lower than 1.0.1-1 (debian versions) and so > uploading an RC package will not prevent for the final release to be > uploaded (1.0.1rc1-1 is bigger than 1.0.1-1). Do you think that might > be the problem? > > I'm not sure -- tilde has special meanings in paths, eg ~jdhunter is my home directory. But even if you had the wrong path, it should cause an error, not an internet download. Are you running the doc build from the doc directory. It is important that the cwd is doc when you start the doc build. The code in matplotlib.cbook.get_sample_data reads: if not matplotlib.rcParams['examples.download']: directory = matplotlib.rcParams['examples.directory'] f = os.path.join(directory, fname) if asfileobj: return open(f, 'rb') else: return f So if the rc file is getting picked up and examples.download is set to False, the code cannot reach the network as far as I can see.