Re: [ITP] python3-pillow

[Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

On 06.07.2020 16:19, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-07-06 at 09:57 +0100, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-
> apps wrote:
>> On 05/07/2020 23:21, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 01:49 +0100, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-
>>> apps wrote:
>>> 2) This should be an ITA for python-imaging instead, which has been
>>> Pillow-based for a long time.

>>
>> The Python imaging library was replaced by Pillow as far as I can tell,
>> and seems to have been unmaintained since 2011. Could you give me a link
>> to the library you're talking about please?
> 
> As I said, our python-imaging packages have been from Pillow for quite
> some time.  Technically, at this point they should be named python-pil
> or the like, but the package name long predates the PIL namespace being
> mandatory (not to mention the Pillow fork in general), but I never
> renamed the packages to avoid the complications involved therein.
>   Either way, "pillow" isn't the right name IMO because users don't
> "from Pillow import", they "from PIL import".


> 
> --
> Yaakov


for the record, I removed python3-pillow from cygwin-pkg-maint.

better late than never


Regards
Marco