Hi! On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is going to be a painful transition if we move the > packages as is to unstable. It would make the transition much smoother > if we provided compatibility libmagick++9-dev and libmagick9-dev > packages.
While I understand [1], I said 3 months ago [2] that it wouldn't be an "easy" transition. Last time that I did a test, only some packages would FTBFS with the new ImageMagick package. I have opened wishlist bugs against them and provided patches with the fixes [3] (maybe not the correct fixes, but they give the idea of what is necessary to change; from what I remember, there are already 2 packages that are fixed in experimental). [1] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/301618 [2] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/188773/comments/4 [3] http://people.debian.org/~naoliv/misc/imagemagick/transition/ The transition is just a replace libmagick9-dev -> libmagickcore-dev (and, if necessary, libmagickwand-dev too), libmagick++9-dev -> libmagick++-dev, plus fixing the more or less 5 packages that will FTBFS. My intention is still wait for Lenny to be released, send a message saying "I will upload the new imagemagick package to unstable in X days, you need to do foo and bar and I will NMU your package in Y days for the transition" to the maintainers that still didn't upload a fixed package to experimental. >From my point of view, keeping a transitional libmagick++9-dev and libmagick9-dev will only delay the problem for some time [see: Lenny gets released; we upload the new imagemagick to unstable (with the transitional packages) and Squeeze gets released with them; in Squeeze + 1 we remove the transitional packages. I am sure that there will be packages still depending on libmagick++9-dev and libmagick9-dev at this time and I don't want to have this work 2 releases away]. As I said, my plan is to do the transition in Lenny + 1 (and without the need of transitional packages). I may be wrong and the other maintainers (Luciano and Daniel) may disagree, but I don't want to think and work on the transitional packages for a problem that just hits Ubuntu now. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
