On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 5:38 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 11:34 AM Kalev Lember <kalevlem...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 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 :) > > > > It matters in this case because both packages provide stuff in > /usr/bin, and we only should have one provider of those. ImageMagick > should retain them, and the ImageMagick6 compat package should only > provide libraries for stuff that can't link to the IM7 libraries. > Ah, yes, that's a good point. I think we have a bunch of packages that 'BuildRequires: ImageMagick' and then use /usr/bin/convert during the build to convert icons from one format to another. Other packages require /usr/bin/convert for runtime use. Sergio, what's your plan for handling /usr/bin/convert? -- Kalev
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