Package: imagemagick Severity: wishlist This is a heads up about a pending problem coming down the pipe.
imagemagick's "convert" command for svg files uses an internal converter found in libmagickcore?-extra, which is recommended by imagemagick. However, the buildds do not install recommends, so it falls back to /usr/bin/rsvg to act as the converter. Many packages convert upstream's svg icon to a pixmap for debian menus (.xpm per the menu policy) rsvg upstream has removed /usr/bin/rsvg from their latest release, so builds will fail when /usr/bin/convert no longer can find /usr/bin/rsvg. "convert" will also fail on user systems that have librsvg2-bin installed and not the recommended package libmagickcore?-extra. Would it be possible to have a virtual package: libmagickcore-extra which is provided by the current SONAME of libmagickcore?-extra? This way we can depend on that and don't need to bump our build dependencies for this internal library that we don't interface. Alternatively, would it be possible to bump libmagickcore?-extra to a "depends" level relationship? If I want to convert svg files, and I don't have "Recommends:" installed by default, I could be confused as to why it doesn't just work and not easily figure out I need the libmagickcore3-extra package. I found this when the package I maintain in Debian suddenly FTBFS on ubuntu: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/92231198/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-i386.librecad_1.0.0%2Bnolibs-1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz and the imagemagick bug I filed in ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/929573 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
