Bug#740495: Moreinformation about imagemagick transition
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On 02/09/14 21:16, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Just took a quick look at this. Some comments:
>
> On 17/08/14 21:39, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> About imagemagick transition:
>> a. I have tried to compile every dependency [1] in pbuilder
>> b. Every package work except:
>> 1. gnudatalanguage has a dependency problem due to a virtual
>> package (b-d uninstable)
>
> That's not in testing, so shouldn't be a problem.
>
>> 2. [pythonmagick] FTBFS with new (experimental) imagemagick
>> version BUT a newer version is waiting from maintainer and will be
>> uploaded when newer imagemagick hit unstable
>> 3. libtuxcap does not work but is not on dependency list and I
>> have carried a patch (does not use imagemagick only at configure time)
>> 4. virtuoso-opensource FTBFS but work with a patch
>> 5. nip2 FTBFS. I have not patches but I have found one non
>> distributable file (lena) and one non free icc file trying to patch
>> it. I could not do a NMU due to these problems
>
>
> Those four have no rdeps so worst case the ones that can't be / don't get fixed
> in time get removed from testing.
>
>> 6. ruby-rmagick FTBFS but will be likely fixed by my imagmagick
>> comaintener and ruby-rmagick maintainer vincent (here in cc).
>
> That would be a problem, but apparently it has been fixed now (#758435).
>
>> So i think it near green light for imagemagick
>
> I want to finish the hdf5 and libav transitions as there are many collisions.
> Once those are done I think we can start this. I will let you know.
Go ahead, but please prepare a patch for nip2 for the FTBFS. You don't need to
fix the other RC bugs, only the FTBFS problem matters for now.
Emilio
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