python-imaging dependency

[Florian Diesch]

"Alexis Kotte" <alexis.kotte at gmail.com> wrote:

> when using plone 2.5.1 on zope2.9 on ubuntu edgy I encountered an
> error: If I tried to upload a picture zope responded with the error
> message
>
> ImportError: The _imaging C module is not installed
>
> while python-imaging (containing this C module) IS installed.
>
> It turned out I was missing the jpeg lib as "ldd" was telling me, so running
>
> apt-get install libjpeg62
>
> solved the problem.
> Should the package "python-imaging" have a dependency on "libjpeg62"?

IMHO a "Recommends" dependency would be the right thing.


   Florian
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