Installing broken package phatch that worked on 15.10

I am trying to install package called phatch - image processing application, it has a bug on 16.04 reported and confirmed, it just won't start. On 15.10 it works great.

Can I install this phatch from 15.10 release's mirror? Is there any way this application can run on 16.04 before the bug is patched?

I tried adding this line to my /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu wily main universe

I did remove the app and installed it again:

$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get autoremove phatch
$sudo apt-get install phatch

I also tried -t parameter with apt: $sudo apt-get -t wily install phatch no results there.

While trying alternative approaches, it allowed me to install some lower versions of dependencies for phatch that I was not allowed before just from xenial release, but application does not work, errors look the same:

~$ phatch 
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py:8196: GtkWarning: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()
  return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py", line 16765, in <lambda>
    lambda event: event.callable(*event.args, **event.kw) )
  File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/pyWx/gui.py", line 1218, in show_frame
    frame = Frame(self.filename, None, -1, ct.TITLE)
  File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/pyWx/gui.py", line 327, in __init__
    frame.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **keyw)
  File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/pyWx/wxGlade/frame.py", line 141, in __init__
    self.tree = Tree(self, -1, style=wx.TR_HAS_BUTTONS|wx.TR_NO_LINES|wx.TR_FULL_ROW_HIGHLIGHT|wx.TR_HIDE_ROOT|wx.TR_DEFAULT_STYLE|wx.SUNKEN_BORDER)
  File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/pyWx/wxGlade/frame.py", line 26, in __init__
    set_dirty   = parent.set_dirty,
  File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 96, in __init__
    self.CreateImageList(icon_size)
  File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 111, in CreateImageList
    self._AddFormToImageList(form, icon_size, icon_disabled)
  File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 120, in _AddFormToImageList
    wx_image = pil_wxImage(wxImage_pil(wx_image).resize(icon_size,\
  File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py", line 46, in wxImage_pil
    image.fromstring(wx_image.GetData())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 746, in fromstring
    "Please call frombytes() instead.")
Exception: fromstring() has been removed. Please call frombytes() instead.

Both Wily and Xenial installs same version of phatch - 0.2.7.