[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#478538: Bug#478538: Please do not depend on gtk

Nelson A. de Oliveira naoliv at debian.org
Sat Apr 25 00:36:05 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer at aevum.de> wrote:
> The package libmagickcore1 in Ubuntu 9.04 seems to have dropped the
> dependency on gtk.
>
> imagemagick (7:6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low
>
>  * Don't build-dep on librsvg, it brings in excessive dependencies

But then we loose the ability to work with SVG.
Maybe we could do a split like [1] (distribute the modules that need
graphical libs into another package), but it will takes some time to
be implemented.

[1] http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/opensuse/imagemagick-extra.html

Patches and suggestions are welcome ;-)

Thank you!

Best regards,
Nelson





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