[Image-SIG] any debian folks here?

[Fredrik Lundh]

simon wrote:


> On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Joe Reinhardt wrote:
> 
> > >> and why on earth does the imaging distribution *depend*
> > >> on the sane backends?  (should be "may use, but sure doesn't require").

careful with the quoting: I wrote that.

what annoys me here is that someone interpreted the debian
statement as if PIL was too buggy to be shipped with a Linux
distribution.

not exactly encouraging.

but since it appears to be a packaging problem, will you fix this?

> The policy is, as I see it, in the stabilizing phase, where we apply it to
> packages to see if there are any unforeseen problems.

if your policy thinks that a package like PIL isn't a valid Python
package, you need a new policy.

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