Probably only with enough volunteers to fix upstream and/or provide patches to
the Debian and/or Ubuntu packages. It's always better to fix things as far
upstream as possible of course.
>If not, then yeah restoring PIL's PIL.pth is probably the best approach. We
>can't do this in Pillow, but it probably makes sense for Ubuntu to do it as a
>patch until such time as the imports can be fixed.
We can't restore PIL.pth because of the relative imports in Pillow, but my
branch (see merge proposal) does add a new compatibility binary package. We'd
still have to patch the Ubuntu/Debian packages to Depend on the compat
package, but that's not too much work.
On Feb 08, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Alex Clark wrote:
>Is fixing the broken imports an option?
Probably only with enough volunteers to fix upstream and/or provide patches to
the Debian and/or Ubuntu packages. It's always better to fix things as far
upstream as possible of course.
>If not, then yeah restoring PIL's PIL.pth is probably the best approach. We
>can't do this in Pillow, but it probably makes sense for Ubuntu to do it as a
>patch until such time as the imports can be fixed.
We can't restore PIL.pth because of the relative imports in Pillow, but my
branch (see merge proposal) does add a new compatibility binary package. We'd
still have to patch the Ubuntu/Debian packages to Depend on the compat
package, but that's not too much work.