On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 08:47:11PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> There's a common Python graphics library, PIL, which is provided by
> two conflicting ports in our tree: py-Imaging and the fork py-Pillow.
> At present, a bunch of ports depend on py-Imaging, and only gramps
> depends on py-Pillow. As the two packages conflict you can't e.g.
> install gramps and hplip or calibre at the same time.
> 
> Pillow is nearly a drop-in replacement, just requiring some 'from PIL'
> on import lines if they aren't already present (which many ports
> already handle themselves). Considering that py-Imaging has
> seen no updates in several years, and there are other programs
> which specifically require Pillow, I'd like to update Pillow to
> a current version and switch the other ports over to use it.
> 
> Diff below does this. I've tested at least 'make test' for all of
> these, and in most cases done runtime tests. Would anyone like to
> check things over before it goes in?
> 
> Specific notes on some dependent ports:
> 
> - fretsonfire marked BROKEN, crashes at startup (same with py-Imaging).

fretsonfire is definitely not critical. I don't even think it's a good
replacement for the game it's supposed to vaguely emulate...

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