On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 5:26 PM Sérgio Basto <ser...@serjux.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 11:57 +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 03/12/2022 00:30, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > The proposal now is to keep ImageMagick 6 and make a new package > > > with > > > ImageMagick 7 , when we have all applications use only ImageMagick > > > 7, > > > we move the sources from ImageMagick7 to ImageMagick > > > > I think it would be better to update the ImageMagick package to > > version > > 7 and create a compatibility package ImageMagick6. > > Anyone is going to review the package or not ? > > I already explain the situation in the other emails on this thread . > > I estimate that I will need about 200 hours to do what your brilliants > minds ask . > > And btw, asking to the others to have the work that you maybe don't > have in your packages , is very easy. if I do the compat package and > wait for 200 packages dependency adapt to the change, will be a chaos , > and I don't like ignore all the tickets opened around it. > > ImageMagick-7.0.1-10 was release on 2016-06-07, today is 2022-12-03 so > after 6 Years and 5 Months and 26 Days, we still haven't any > ImageMagick 7 in Fedora or EL, so or you help me on do it in my way , > or I won't do it . > > That is why package guidelines should be a guide and not all and not > the all truth rule, when in practice you don't follow it just claim it. > I think it makes sense to do it the way Sergio is planning as it makes it all much much easier. I don't think we should set a too high bar here wrt the package naming; anything is an improvement if we can start getting the distro migrating to ImageMagick 7. We can always rename ImageMagick -> ImageMagick6 and ImageMagick7 -> ImageMagick at a later date when someone has the energy to do it. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good :) -- Kalev
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