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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Edwin Grubbs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> PIL will be used for the new script for generating the combined sprite
> image from the individual image files. python-imaging 1.1.7 provides
> much better PNG compression than previous versions, and it is already
> packaged for lucid. I want to add it to the launchpad PPA and then to
> launchpad-developer-dependencies.

Will the results of combining the images be checked into the tree, or
something 'make build' does?  If the latter, PIL will need to be in
launchpad-dependencies, not launchpad-developer-dependencies.

> Is it still necessary to have launchpad-developer-dependencies support
> jaunty, or can I just backport PIL to hardy and karmic? If jaunty is
> no longer supported, I can also remove the other packages for it in
> the PPA and update the wiki.

launchpad-developer-dependencies was uninstallable on Jaunty for a few
months until just a few minutes ago I think, and noone complained...

Cheers,
mwh