In the case of the conversion of a list column to a pandas column, currently we always do a copy even though in the numeric case, we could avoid it most of the time. To enable zero-copy conversions, we need to pass a Python reference to a pyarrow.Column to the ConvertColumnToPandas inside of ConvertListsLike.
Reporter: Uwe Korn / @xhochy
Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-489. Please see the migration documentation for further details.