[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#1054462: imagemagick no longer sets "PACKAGE_RELEASE_DATE"

[Håvard F. Aasen]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-2
Severity: serious
Affects: wand
Justification: makes other packages ftbfs
X-Debbugs-Cc: havard.f.aasen at pfft.no


imagemagick no longer sets "PACKAGE_RELEASE_DATE" in configure.ac, this is due
to the Debian patch 0022-Embeds-date-dependent-on-timezone.patch.

This code in question now looks for a file that does not exist, and therefore
fails, it also generates a error message that is readable from the build log [1].

> date: ./ChangeLog: No such file or directory

The field "PACKAGE_RELEASE_DATE" is being used multiple places within imagemagic,
and one of them is GetMagickReleaseDate() that now returns an empty string. I
suspect that this bug affects imagemagick itself and possible other packages
as well, but perhaps not as severe as wand, that requires this information when
running the test-suite.


I believe the easiest, and correct, solution is to drop the patch altogether.


Regards,
-- 
Håvard


[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=imagemagick&arch=amd64&ver=8%3A6.9.12.98%2Bdfsg1-2&stamp=1698003612&raw=0