Current package maintainer here. I agree with your reasoning and consent to
the deletion request.
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 05:42 <not...@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
> MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python-pillow-simd [2]:
>
> This is an old duplicate of python-pillow, at version 9.2.0, whereas
> repo's pillow is on 10.0.1 atm.
>
> The fork project's README.md clearly states about their versioning
> scheme [a]:
>
> "
> Pillow-SIMD is »following« Pillow which means it is drop-in
> replacements for Pillow of the same version. For example, Pillow-SIMD
> 3.2.0.post3 is a drop-in replacement for Pillow 3.2.0, and Pillow-SIMD
> 3.3.3.post0 — for Pillow 3.3.3.
> "
>
> So as this AUR package is on 9.2.0 rather than 9.2.0.post[number], it
> is using a copy of upstream Pillow's 9.2.0 source.
>
> As one digs a little deeper, it becomes obvious that the fork project
> no longer produces their patched versions of upstream's latest
> releases. [b]
>
> In fact, the last pillow-simd release was:
> v9.0.0.post1 (Jan 4, 2022)
> (seen on the second page of the git tags list [c]).
> (Also on PyPI [d].)
>
> The fact that the fork project has newer (vanilla, upstream) tags and
> commits on GitHub than its Jan 2022 patched release is misleading. It
> just means they mechanically pulled in ("copied") commits and tags
> from the upstream pillow codebase, without maintaining their own fork.
>
> As of now the fork repo's imported codebase is also out-of-sync with
> upstream pillow: last pillow-simd imported tag is 9.5.0 (Apr 1, 2023),
> as opposed to python-pillow's 10.0.1 (Sep 15, 2023).
>
> In light of all the above facts, I posit that it is no longer useful
> to keep this fork package.
>
> Summary of the reasons:
> - old duplicate of python-pillow,
> - if reverted to pillow-simd 9.0.0.post1 (Jan 4, 2022), it would be
> even older,
> - not feature and API equivalent to pillow 10+,
> - so it potentially breaks packages that rely on pillow 10's changed
> or new API elements,
> - all in all this can no longer be a drop-in replacement of python-
> pilllow,
> - fork is essentially unmaintained since Jan 2022.
>
> [a]:
> https://github.com/uploadcare/pillow-simd#readme
> [b]:
> https://github.com/uploadcare/pillow-simd/tags
> [c]:
> https://github.com/uploadcare/pillow-simd/tags?after=9.1.0
> [d]:
> https://pypi.org/project/pillow-simd/
>
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-pillow-simd/
