[Image-SIG] any debian folks here?

[Ture Pålsson]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@pythonware.com> writes:

> just got a note from someone who'd read on slashdot that PIL
> has been pulled from Debian because I happened to include an
> optional and unsupported scanner module in what's essentially
> a "contrib" directory.
> 
> can anyone explain?

I can't explain, but this posting from the debian-devel-announce list
seems relevant. Perhaps there's some starting point there for figuring
out what's going on:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2001/debian-devel-announce-200111/msg00012.html

  -- T