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.
Note that the packaging guidelines don't actually specify that the "unversioned" package name must be for the "latest" version. So using ImageMagick for version 6 and ImageMagick7 for version 7 is fine from Packaging Guidelines point of view.
Fabio