On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 09:05:02AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> >Would we be keeping these separate for a long time? Alternatives are
> >really pretty ugly and I'd hate to see that introduced just for one
> >release.
> After handling all the rebuilds for version 7, it is pretty rare for
> an upstream to support version 7 right now. I would strike an
> uneducated guess at 1-2 years for upstreams to come around to
> porting. It would not surprise me if some upstreams stay at version
> 6 unless ImageMagick decides to stop supporting version 6. Not to

Ugh. How many of these are using the library and how many are shelling
out? Could we just tack a 6 on the end of all of the older binaries?

> mention the dead upstreams where we will have to port ourselves or
> our friends at  Canonical and Debian that don't even have version 7
> (or a recent version 6) in their repos.

Or port those to GraphicsMagick as suggested elsewhere.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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