On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 9:08 PM Antonio Rojas via arch-dev-public < [email protected]> wrote:
> El Sat, 02 Dec 2017 19:53:10 +0000, Jan Alexander Steffens via > arch-dev-public escribió: > > > Hi list, > > > > if nobody objects I would like to start an upgrade to ImageMagick 7. > > > > The plan is: > > - Split imagemagick into (libmagick imagemagick imagemagick-doc). > > - Add imagemagick6, split into (libmagick6 imagemagick6). No docs. > > > > libmagick and libmagick6 contain the parallel-installable libraries. > > > > imagemagick and imagemagick6 conflict with each other, containing the > > tools, the perl module and the conflicting build files. > > > > We'll need some rebuilds, of course. > > > > Thoughts? > > Will imagemagick6 (the tools) still be needed after we ship IM7? I'd > rather not ship two versions of the tools if that's possible. > That's the question. I'm not even sure (but more confident) that we need libmagick6. I have the complete set ready, but we can still drop the packages that we later determine are not needed.

