From 0396c712dea5b8d21258b635469ef7c19142ce5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "P. L. Lim" <2090236+pllim@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:31:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] TST: Skip test if matplotlib too old

---
 astropy/visualization/wcsaxes/tests/test_misc.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/astropy/visualization/wcsaxes/tests/test_misc.py b/astropy/visualization/wcsaxes/tests/test_misc.py
index 8b5315bd96a9..3063b7de9d43 100644
--- a/astropy/visualization/wcsaxes/tests/test_misc.py
+++ b/astropy/visualization/wcsaxes/tests/test_misc.py
@@ -449,10 +449,13 @@ def test_time_wcs(time_spectral_wcs_2d):
     plt.subplot(projection=time_spectral_wcs_2d)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.skipif('MATPLOTLIB_LT_21')
 @ignore_matplotlibrc
 def test_simplify_labels_usetex(tmpdir):
     """Regression test for https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/8004."""
+    # pytest.mark.skipif() did not work as expected, so we do this here.
+    if MATPLOTLIB_LT_21:
+        pytest.skip('Incompatible with old matplotlib')
+    
     plt.rc('text', usetex=True)
 
     header = {