On Sat, 2017-09-02 at 10:34 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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?

I think is more simpler use version 7 just in F28 and we gain some
time. 
I (also) saw that API change is not easy to fix [1] , issue opened in
Jul 18, and no one provide a patch ...   

[1] 
https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot/issues/60

> > 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.
> 
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