Bug#873103: [release.debian.org] Plan for imagemagick7 landing before next stable
Control: retitle -1 transition: imagemagick 7
Control: severity -1 normal
On 30/08/17 23:17, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> 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.
My thoughts as well. How big a change in the API is there in imagemagick 7? Have
you done some rebuilds to see how many rdeps fail to build?
Cheers,
Emilio
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