Bug#873103: [release.debian.org] Plan for imagemagick7 landing before next stable

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 05:23:53PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I plan to release imagemagick 7 before next stable version. And I want to 
> coexist imagemagick6 and imagemagick7.

Why? That means twice the security updates (which are already a big
resource hog). We only do that in exceptional cases and this doesn't
sound like one.

All existing reverse dependencies can be converted before the freeze.

Cheers,
        Moritz