[DRE-maint] Bug#591419: Same librmagick problem again

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:03:46AM -0800, Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> >  * the second one is that librmagick-ruby is very easily broken by
> > newer versions of imagemagick, which is actually very hard to track.
> > This will need some thinking; possibly a solution would be a strict
> > versioned dependency along if only binNMUs for each imagemagick
> > release ?
> 
> What happened to this idea? I think this is the (a?) reason ruby-rmagick
> is currently failing its autopkgtests, using an imagemagick at runtime
> that it is not built against?
> 
> We have seen this on Ubuntu as well, and I wonder if it would be
> appropriate to just extract the libmagickcore version used at build-time
> and override the shlib-depends for that package with specifically the
> built-using version? Thanks to Adam Conrad for this suggestion.
> 
> I can work on a patch, if it would be acceptable.

patches are *always* welcome
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