[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Possible ImageMagick transition?

[Neil McGovern]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:54:21PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:16:23 +0100
> Neil McGovern <neilm at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Any idea how many packages this will affect, and how many of these
> > will now FTBFS?
> > ImageMagick isn't famed for it's stable ABIs... :)
> 
> That is why I have asked (2+ weeks ago) the maintainers to test the
> building and functionality of their packages.
> 
> There is a page at http://wiki.debian.org/ImageMagickTransition where I
> am collecting the status of the packages.
> There is only one program that has a minor problem in opening
> BMP files (but it compiles perfectly). I won't say that it's a major
> problem as this package (imview) supports only ImageMagick 5.x series
> (and upstream already knows the problem with newer IM versions).
> It seems that there aren't problems until now (9 answers; total of
> packages is 30).
> 

Considering the target for library freezes, I don't think that there's
enough time to get this completed. *IF* you can get this all ready to go
in experimental, very soon (before the end of June, say), then we can
look at a transition.

Thanks,
Neil
-- 
<Tolimar> "Debian women - porting the most succesfull operating system to the
	most unknown architecture"
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