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
