On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:06:52PM +0000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Following the soname bump of libmagickcore, I now have #573972:
>
> > pyxplot explicitly depends on libmagickcore2-extra, which no longer exists
> > after the recent imagemagick upload to unstable; it's been replaced by
> > libmagickcore3-extra.
> >
> > Please check and update your build-dependency.
>
> This is a trivial thing for me to fix in the pyxplot packaging, but the fact
> that pyxplot requires a sourceful upload when something it only ever calls at
> the command line undergoes a soname bump probably points to something wrong
> here.
>
> The only reason that pyxplot build-depends on libmagickcore2-extra is to get
> svg to png conversion functionality in imagemagick. Since pyxplot doesn't
> actually use any symbols itself from imagemagick at all (it just calls
> convert!), it shouldn't need to worry about transitions in helper utilities
> that it calls.
>
> Is there already a better way for me to write a depends line that brings this
> functionality into convert? If not, should there be? I don't really want
> pyxplot (and however many other package out there) to require sourceful
> uploads every time you need a soname bump on imagemagick :( Would "Provides:
> libmagickcore-extra" be a reasonable solution so that packages can depend on
> that instead?
Stupid question: wouldn't graphicsmagick (and
graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat) be sufficient for your use case?
Thomas
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