matplotlib/matplotlib — pull request #3622 by mdboom (2014-10-07 21:37:50+00:00)
Title: setup.py creates a zombie C extension called "freetype2"

Since #3067, there has been a useless and unimportable extension created as part of the matplotlib install. We need to remove it.

However, it reportedly fixes a real bug for some, but it's not quite clear how. I'll poke around and see if I can break/fix it in the same way as the original reports and then find a better solution that doesn't install a broken `.so` file.

```
>>> import freetype2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (initfreetype2)
```

The name of matplotlib's freetype wrapper is ft2font, not freetype2.