Bug#345017: ITP: graphicsmagick -- collection of image processing tools

[Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>

* Package name    : graphicsmagick
  Version         : 1.1.7
  Upstream Author : Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
* URL             : http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
* License         : MIT/X
  Description     : collection of image processing tools

 GraphicsMagick provides a set of command-line applications, as well as
 libraries in several programming languages to manipulate image files
 across various file formats. It is a fork of the ImageMagick project
 and therefore offers a similar set of features, but puts a larger
 emphasis on stability.


Interface instability of ImageMagick has been a recurring problem for
the Debian package and its reverse dependencies. GraphicsMagick was
forked to address this very issue with a different development process.
Both variants usually coexist nicely because they use different names
for libraries, applications, and header locations. Optional
compatibility packages will provide the necessary symlink and wrapper
magic to make GraphicsMagick more of a drop-in replacement for
ImageMagick.

Regards,

Daniel.