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Yeah, but one of the issues is that some very popular packages for Python were already development-dead for years.

PIL is a good example; the last actual PIL release was in 2009. We now have a great fork that works (Pillow), but PIL is not the only dead package that's still in active use. There are quite a few others, too.




Pillow's first big forking action was python3 compatibility. It works, and it wasn't _that_ hard to do.


pip warnings on non maintained packages perhaps?




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