> Hi due to imagemagick transition could depend on libmagickcore-extra > | libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra instead of only libmagickcore-extra. > > I plan do to a NMU soon
> Bug #740495 [release.debian.org] transition: imagemagick > 740495 was blocked by: 758001 758459 746228 701655 758443 747857 758435 > 747907 747908 761104 740495 was blocking: 758492 > Added blocking bug(s) of 740495: 761725 Shouldn't imagemagick have a better transition plan instead? The entire point of having libmagickcore-extra is to isolate packages from imagemagick's transitions -- requiring a versioned package to be listed in the build-depends means that it becomes ensnared in each and every transition even when it is not using any symbols from the libraries directly. All these packages need is a working convert(1) and all that requires is for the old provides to be removed and the new one introduced as per the discussion of virtual packages in build-dependencies in Policy. We seem to go through this repeatedly with imagemagick transitions... it'd be great it we could avoid breaking rdeps :( See also #574058 and #667826. cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
