Update ImageMagick in Fedora 16

Tomáš Smetana tsmetana at redhat.com
Mon May 28 12:45:22 UTC 2012


On Sun, 27 May 2012 23:28:03 +0400
Pavel Alexeev <forum at hubbitus.com.ru> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Due to the security issues ([1] for example) and act as newcomer 
> provenpackager I'll plan update ImageMagick in Fedora 16 too (I should 
> had been done it early off course). It seams addressed in rawhide.

Hello,
  may I ask why you prefer bumping the soname instead of just patching the
vulnerabilities?  The patch is actually ready.  Replacing the library with an
ABI incompatible version in the stable Fedora release sounds like an overkill
in this case.

Thanks and regards,
-- 
Tomáš Smetana


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