[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#860763: imagemagick: /etc/imagemagick-6/policy.xml useless limits settings

[chris_blues]

Package: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
     The need to edit large images

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     removing the limits, defined in /etc/imagemagick-6/policy.xml

   * What was the outcome of this action?
     I was able to use IM again :-/

     On this topic:
     I believe the limits are meant to make life easier for admins of webservers. Users on desktop machines have to have root access and the knowledge to find this file, and how to change it correctly. IMHO, this is not a good idea. I think an admin will have higher chances of finding that file and change than a desktop user!
     Please go back and make it a vanilla IM file again!

-- Package-specific info:
ImageMagick program version
---------------------------
animate:  ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org
compare:  ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org
convert:  ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org
composite:  ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org
conjure:  ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org
display:  ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org
identify:  ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org
import:  ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org
mogrify:  ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org
montage:  ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org
stream:  ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages imagemagick depends on:
ii  imagemagick-6.q16  8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-5

imagemagick recommends no packages.

imagemagick suggests no packages.

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