Bug 683850 – media-gfx/mcomix-1.2.1 with dev-python/pillow-6 - AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'VERSION'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description زياد بن عبدالعزيز الباتلي 2019-04-19 13:36:15 UTC]

Created attachment 573450 [details, diff]
Replace PIL.Image.VERSION with PIL.__version__

After upgrading to dev-python/pillow-6.0.0::gentoo mcomix stopped working with the error:
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Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                     
  File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/mcomix", line 11, in <module>                                                                                    
    load_entry_point('mcomix==1.2.1', 'console_scripts', 'mcomix')()                                                                 
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/mcomix/run.py", line 206, in run                                                         
    assert PIL.Image.VERSION >= '1.1.5'                                                                                                
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'VERSION'
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Upstream fixed this recently with 486f02eef164df451a72598ce5989a1b37b49c60 (titled: Replace PIL.Image.VERSION with PIL.__version__)

The patch applies on top of media-gfx/mcomix-1.2.1 (as present in the Gentoo portage tree) cleanly.

The patch is attached here.

Thank you sooooo much for your hard work.

[Comment 1 زياد بن عبدالعزيز الباتلي 2019-04-19 15:56:09 UTC]

Please note that the patch fixes the problem *without* breaking older version of dev-python/pillow (<dev-python/pillow-6).  So users who still use older version of dev-python/pillow will *not* get affected with this patch.

Thanks.

[Comment 2 Adam Jones 2019-04-21 23:58:03 UTC]

Created attachment 573762 [details, diff]
Fixes to run mcomix with Pillow 6

I found that I also needed to set USE_PIL=True to avoid getting an "assert name not in supported_formats" error.

Upstream appears to have some more comprehensive changes, but this patch gets things working for the time being.

[Comment 3 François Bissey 2019-04-24 21:58:03 UTC]

Adam's patch works for me.

[Comment 4 Ștefan Talpalaru 2019-05-10 19:58:09 UTC]

Fixed in media-gfx/mcomix-1.2.1_p20190406 from my overlay: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/gentoo-overlay

[Comment 5 Adrien Tougas 2019-08-13 21:06:17 UTC]

(In reply to زياد بن عبدالعزيز الباتلي from comment #0)
> Upstream fixed this recently with 486f02eef164df451a72598ce5989a1b37b49c60
> (titled: Replace PIL.Image.VERSION with PIL.__version__)
> 
> The patch applies on top of media-gfx/mcomix-1.2.1 (as present in the Gentoo
> portage tree) cleanly.
> 
> The patch is attached here.
> 
> Thank you sooooo much for your hard work.

This patch worked for me. 
I have not noticed any errors like those described by Adam Jones from comment #2 as such I haven't tried his patch.

[Comment 6 Andreas Sturmlechner 2020-03-01 21:41:57 UTC]

It seems this package is broken in stable - would it make sense to remove 1.2.1 then and drop it back to ~arch, or is 1.3.0_pre20200206 already eligible for early stabilisation?

[Comment 7 Bernard Cafarelli 2020-03-05 12:06:53 UTC]

Thanks, I forgot to update this bug when I bumped mcomix.

Considering current stable is broken and I did not get bug reports so far on 1.3.0_pre20200206, I think we should go with early stabilization (and also get rid of pygtk dependency).

I filled bug #711584 for stabling, marking this one as fixed for the issue itself with version bump 1.3.0_pre20200206