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Re: Possible ImageMagick transition?



On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 05:25:23PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:37:53 +0200
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@ftwca.de> wrote:
> 
> > "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <naoliv@debian.org> writes:
> > > Something says to me that the answer will be "Sorry, too late", but
> > > is it a possibility (time is short, I know) to have an ImageMagick
> > > transition (with soname and package names changes)?
> > 
> > Why is it needed? New, regular upstream release, or something worse?
> 
> While basically it's a new upstream release, there are 25+ bug fixes
> (if comparing the new version available at experimental against the
> current one available at testing/unstable) and a cleaner and more
> elaborated package.
> 

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... :)

Neil
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