[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] cups-filters, imagemagick and graphicsmagick

roucaries bastien roucaries.bastien+debian at gmail.com
Mon Dec 28 22:43:24 UTC 2015


On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Yann Dirson <ydirson at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed the latest cups-filters added a versionned dependencies on
> imagemagick, as having graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat installed,
> the latter could not be used any more as a replacement for imagemagick.
>
> I'm not sure what the graphicsmagick status is, but regardless, the
> versionned display may be a bit too strong a dependency, especially as
> it seems only the users needing to convert files into Braille will
> need this dependency.  Wouldn't it be enough to leave the unversionned
> dependency as it was, and to add a versionned recommendation instead ?
>
> Best regards,

Seems really a bad idea, imagemagick get the full X depends... It is
on upstream todo list to avoid X...

Bastien

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