On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:54:21PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:16:23 +0100 > Neil McGovern <neilm@debian.org> wrote: > > > Any idea how many packages this will affect, and how many of these > > will now FTBFS? > > ImageMagick isn't famed for it's stable ABIs... :) > > That is why I have asked (2+ weeks ago) the maintainers to test the > building and functionality of their packages. > > There is a page at http://wiki.debian.org/ImageMagickTransition where I > am collecting the status of the packages. > There is only one program that has a minor problem in opening > BMP files (but it compiles perfectly). I won't say that it's a major > problem as this package (imview) supports only ImageMagick 5.x series > (and upstream already knows the problem with newer IM versions). > It seems that there aren't problems until now (9 answers; total of > packages is 30). > Considering the target for library freezes, I don't think that there's enough time to get this completed. *IF* you can get this all ready to go in experimental, very soon (before the end of June, say), then we can look at a transition. Thanks, Neil -- <Tolimar> "Debian women - porting the most succesfull operating system to the most unknown architecture"
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