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

[Lucas Kanashiro]

Hi Emilio,

On 30/11/2024 05:29, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the patch! I reviewed the MR on salsa and it looks good, I 
just merged it. Feel free to upload it without any delay.

Lucas Kanashiro