Control: tags -1 +confirmed moreinfo On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 4:00 PM Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > this package has a Provides:imagemagick, but it doesn't ship a > > /usr/bin/compare like imagemagick does; therefore, it's not a full > > alternative to it. Just checked, it seems it never contained the 'compare' command - not in Wheezy, Jessie nor in Stretch at least.
> GraphicsMagick does provide a 'compare' command which offers some > operation modes similar to ImageMagick's compare (-colorspace, -debug, > -define, -density, -depth, -highlight-color, -interlace, -limit, > -metric, -monitor, -sampling-factor, -size, -type, -verbose) [...] Actually it should be an alias, right? Checked magick/command.c and its command_names[] but without luck. > From looking at the GraphicsMagick > Makefile, it appears that does install a 'compare' command so the lack > of 'compare' must be an artifact of Debian packaging. Couldn't find the mentioned Makefile - only magick/compare.c exists with methods for GraphicsMagick itself. > If the Debian packaging was updated to include 'compare' would this > satisfy your expectations? Bob, may you check your GraphicsMagick install? Does it really install a 'compare' binary? Just for the record, the 'stream' binary also seems to be missing in GM. Thanks, Laszlo/GCS
