[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#770009: convert(1) very slow on mips with no FPU

[Simon McVittie]

On 15/08/15 19:02, roucaries bastien wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
>> Bastien: perhaps the conversion of SVG to 14 PNG icons could move to the
>> arch-indep part of the build, and the smoke-test could be something
>> simpler, like a single image-resize operation? Even if that takes an
>> hour (leading to maybe a 3-4 hour total build time), that's way better
>> than spending 16 hours on a smoke-test.
> 
> Yes but I do not want to do that before next version. My priority is
> the new c++ library.

Someone (possibly jcristau?) seems to have rescheduled the
imagemagick/8:6.8.9.9-5.1 build on mips with a longer-than-default
inactivity timeout. We should know by tomorrow morning whether that has
worked; if it has, I'll leave it alone. If it has not worked, I might
NMU with the attached patch so that this part of the libstdc++
transition can start moving forward again. The release team probably
don't want to start binNMUs against the new imagemagick until it has
built on all architectures.

The attached patch moves the icons from imagemagick-6.q16 to
imagemagick-common so that they can be built by one of the -indep
stages. This does increase the installed size on systems that have the
imagemagick libraries, but not the executables, by around 350K; that
doesn't seem too expensive (and it saves space in the archive, by not
duplicating the icons). Installed size on systems that have the
executables is unaffected.

To get some trivial testing on each architecture even on non-FPU
machines, I've added a very simple format conversion (GIF to PNG) as an
alternative to the test suite.

    S
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