Bug#931851: pysolfc: pythonfc fails to start since python upgrades, new version with fix available upstream

[Heinz Repp]

Package: pysolfc
Version: 2.0-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (150, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pysolfc depends on:
ii  python            2.7.16-1
ii  python-configobj  5.0.6-3
ii  python-pygame     1.9.4.post1+dfsg-3
ii  python-tk         2.7.16-2

Versions of packages pysolfc recommends:
ii  python-pil.imagetk [python-imaging-tk]  6.1.0-1
pn  tk-tile                                 <none>

Versions of packages pysolfc suggests:
pn  freecell-solver-bin  <none>
pn  pysolfc-cardsets     <none>

-- no debconf information

when started from the command line, I see python throw the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/games/pysolfc", line 32, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "/usr/share/games/pysolfc/pysollib/main.py", line 359, in main
    r = pysol_init(app, args)
  File "/usr/share/games/pysolfc/pysollib/main.py", line 339, in pysol_init
    if not app.loadCardset(cardset, progress=progress, update=1):
  File "/usr/share/games/pysolfc/pysollib/app.py", line 872, in loadCardset
    images = Images(self.dataloader, cs)
  File "/usr/share/games/pysolfc/pysollib/images.py", line 60, in __init__
    if TOOLKIT == 'tk' and Image and Image.VERSION >= '1.1.7':
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'VERSION'

This is a known incompatibility with the new python Image library (pillow 0.6?), and has been addressed by the pysolfc developers in April, current version 2.6.4 is fixed.
I have (testing):
python-pil.imagetk/testing,unstable,now 6.1.0-1 amd64  [installiert]
  Python-Bildbearbeitungsbibliothek - ImageTk-Modul (Pillow-Fork)

please upgrade to current upstream version!

Heinz Repp