status/destiny of imagemagick

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

Dear All,

I am in the process of preparing umibozu package, which uses
libmagick++9c2a library. Some crashes of umibozu boiled down to problems
in imagemagick and naturally upstream author recommended to try recent
imagemagick. 

At the moment imagemagick in debian is 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.14 (with  (103
bugs: 0, 51, 40, 12) bugs). 
Upstream release is ImageMagick-6.3.2-8.tar.gz whenever 6.2.4.6 was
released on 09/17/2005 (ie 1.5 years ago).

imagemagick seems to be not listed among wnpp packages (ie not orphaned,
neither requiring some help) but has a list of 14 NMUs... 

I am wondering if there is some good cause to stay with such outdated
imagemagick or it is simply its implicit orphaned state?

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