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 :)
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Kalev