[DRE-maint] Bug#1088648: vips: update to 8.16.0 causes regression in ruby-vips autopkgtest

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 29/11/2024 20:52, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 ruby-vips
> Control: affects -1 vips
> Control: tags -1 patch
> 
> (actually reassigning)
> 
> On 29/11/2024 18:48, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
>> reassign -1 ruby-vips
>> affects -1 vips
>>
>> Hi Emilio,
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 12:51 AM Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
>> <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Your package cannot migrate to testing due to a regression in ruby-vips'
>>> autopkgtest:
>>   Indeed it is fired by the Vips 8.16.0 release, but the source of it
>> lies in ruby-vips. Already reported upstream and got a fix. The actual
>> patch is this [1].
> 
> Nice.
> 
>> Unfortunately it seems this package is not
>> maintained, at least the last upload was two years ago. Meanwhile
>> three upstream releases were tagged, including a somewhat big (v2.2.0)
>> one.
> 
> ruby-vips maintainers, can we get a fix for this? It's blocking the imagemagick 
> transition, which is blocking the php one. I'll probably upload the fix to 
> DELAYED/2, but let me know if I should delay it longer or upload without delay, 
> or if you can just push the fix then all the better.
> 
> fwiw I'd prefer a minimal fix and not an update to 2.2.2, that can happen after 
> this fix is in testing though.

I have uploaded the minimal fix pointed by László to DELAYED/2, and submitted it 
as a MR on salsa. Let me know if I can reschedule it, in order to finish the 
imagemagick transition.

Cheers,
Emilio