According to the developer, this is deliberate. It was necessary to make setuptools work. The the following bug report and email have more info.
https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/issues/25 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
