[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#867230: octave-image: possible unnecessary dependency on imagemagick

[Mike Miller <mtmiller@debian.org>]

Package: octave-image
Version: 2.6.1-2
Severity: minor

I suspect the Depends: imagemagick is outdated and no longer necessary.
>From what I can tell, octave-image used to contain image functions that
called the "convert" command line utility directly. That no longer seems
to be the case. The Build-Depends does not contain imagemagick, and the
full test suite runs without it.

Does anyone know whether functions in this package still require the
imagemagick command line interface to be installed?

If it can be removed, Description making reference to ImageMagick should
also be updated / revised.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages octave-image depends on:
ii  imagemagick                      8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11
ii  imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick]  8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11
ii  libc6                            2.24-12
ii  libgcc1                          1:7.1.0-7
pn  liboctave3v5                     <none>
ii  liboctave4                       4.2.1-2
ii  libstdc++6                       7.1.0-7
ii  octave                           4.2.1-2

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