Hi Stuart,
The reason these compat packages were removed was because they used
Provides: on their imagemagick equivalents without being completely
compatible. This caused sporadic build failures when they are picked up
instead of imagemagick; see https://bugs.debian.org/413954 for instance.
I don't think removing the compat packages should break anything, since
the packages they are providing already exist separately. What exactly
is failing to build?
Best,
James
On 2025-11-02 16:41, Stuart Prescott wrote:
Source: graphicsmagick
Version: 1.4+really1.3.46-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Uncoordinated transition making hundreds of packages rc-buggy
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
The most recent upload of graphicsmagick dropped two binary packages
(graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat and graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat),
which are widely used in Debian as build-dependencies.
Dropping these packages makes around 300 packages in Debian rc-buggy,
without discussion, a transition plan, bugs being filed, or coordination
with the Release Team.
Stuart
