The advice at the following link fixed it for me. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=811184#12
Basically: In the file usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py I changed the words "fromstring" and "tostring" to "frombytes" and "tobytes". Now Phatch seems to work with the latest python-imaging and python-pil libraries in Sid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527314 Title: Neither Dropplet nor Inspect will accept images. No reaction what so ever To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phatch/+bug/1527314/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs