[bug#46567] [PATCH 0/1] imagemagick: update to latest 6.x.

[Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 9:29 PM Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 08:18:55PM +0100, Vincent Legoll wrote:
> > I dunno the status of dependents wrt 7.x.
>
> In Guix we don't have a package of ImageMagick 7, and the upstream
> developers continue supporting "legacy" ImageMagick 6. We have packaged
> ImageMagick 7 in the past at least once.
>
> Basically, if we want to use version 7, we should do some tests to
> ensure that packages using ImageMagick are compatible. Unfortunately
> ImageMagick uses a so-called "command-line API" so it's not simple to
> check compatibility. The easiest way would be to wait for the upstream
> developers of packages that use ImageMagick to announce compaitibility
> (maybe some of them have already done this, I don't know).

Yes, I've seen the comment, I was just trying to tell that I did not check
any dependent for 7.x compatibility.

Thanks

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Vincent Legoll