[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#659259: Bug#659259: imagemagick: "convert" falls back to /usr/bin/rsvg which is removed upstream, potential for mass FTBFSes

[roucaries bastien]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Scott Howard <showard314 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: imagemagick
> Severity: wishlist
>
> This is a heads up about a pending problem coming down the pipe.
>
> imagemagick's "convert" command for svg files uses an internal
> converter found in libmagickcore?-extra, which is recommended by
> imagemagick. However, the buildds do not install recommends, so it
> falls back to /usr/bin/rsvg to act as the converter. Many packages
> convert upstream's svg icon to a pixmap for debian menus (.xpm per the
> menu policy)
>
> rsvg upstream has removed /usr/bin/rsvg from their latest release, so
> builds will fail when /usr/bin/convert no longer can find
> /usr/bin/rsvg.  "convert" will also fail on user systems that have
> librsvg2-bin installed and not the recommended package
> libmagickcore?-extra.
>
> Would it be possible to have a virtual package: libmagickcore-extra
> which is provided by the current SONAME of libmagickcore?-extra? This
> way we can depend on that and don't need to bump our build
> dependencies for this internal library that we don't interface.
> Alternatively, would it be possible to bump libmagickcore?-extra to a
> "depends" level relationship? If I want to convert svg files, and I
> don't have "Recommends:" installed by default, I could be confused as
> to why it doesn't just work and not easily figure out I need the
> libmagickcore3-extra package.
>
>
> I found this when the package I maintain in Debian suddenly FTBFS on ubuntu:
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/92231198/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-i386.librecad_1.0.0%2Bnolibs-1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz
> and the imagemagick bug I filed in ubuntu:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/929573

No.

WTF librsvg remove rsvg binary ?

We will not put extra by default because it will force install of
gnome what is not needed on server.

Please fill a bug with important what you want to librsvg.

Thanks

Bastien

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