skimage 0.0 has no project description on pypi.org

[tvw]

I found skimage 0.0 in a requirements.txt of a project I cloned. Since it broke my pip install, I went to pypi to find out, what purpose the package has. After downloading and unpacking it, I found out, its sole purpose is to break installation.

So I first thought, it exists because skimage had been renamed to scikit_image and to give those people a hint, who still use the wrong name in their requirements.txt etc.

But then I wondered about the version number 0.0 - who will have skimage==0.0 in a requirements.txt??? So I get a version error when I do a install with just another version than 0.0. The error message in the setup.py therefore will never be shown.

Now I have no clue, what the use case of the package is. IMHO the package should either removed from pypi.org or it should have a project description on pypi.org.

[jni]

Thanks for raising this @tvw. Actually we've been meaning to change that package to redirect to scikit-image through requirements for some time, but never got around to it. Will try to prioritise this in the coming days.

[rfezzani]

Any update on this @jni? Thank you