Source: imagemagick Version: 8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1 Severity: important Control: affects -1 + src:gnustep-gui
[ I am filing this bug with severity:important because bugs affecting non-release architectures were traditionally filed with this severity and because it makes a certain set of GNUstep packages unusable on architectures where librsvg is not available. Please donwgrade the severity if you don't agree. ] gnustep-gui cannot be built on alpha, hppa, m68k and sh4 because libmagickcore-7.q16-dev is not installable: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gnustep-gui&suite=sid This is very unfortunate, because we at the GNUstep team are switching to a new multiarch-based layout [1] which will make some of the packages completely unusable on these architectures if they are not rebuilt. src:imagemagick itself is not buildable on these architectures, and I tried hard to understand why libmagickcore-7.q16-dev depends on librvg2-dev. This seems completely unnecessary as AFAICS, ImageMagick headers do not include librsvg headers and do not expose librsvg types, linking with ImageMagick libraries does not require linking with librsvg, and ImageMagick's pkg-config files do not require librsvg. Perhaps I'm missing something. It would be stupid if libgnustep-gui-dev depended on libmagickcore-7.q16-dev just because it uses ImageMagick internally, so I consider libmagickcore-7.q16-dev's dependency on librvg2-dev equally stupid. Again, I may be missing something, and I don't mean offence so please bear with me. According to the documentation, ImageMagick uses inkscape (if available), then resorts to librsvg and as a last resort uses an internal implementation to handle SVG. I don't know if the latter actually works, but I think it's better than blocking a bunch of packages (possibly not only gnustep-gui and its rdeps). [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1093620 P.S. We at the GNUstep team prefer to see the green colour everywhere, and we treat all architectures equally. GNUstep is known for its portability, and we intend to maintain that.
