On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 21:30 -0700, Moez Roy wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 20:07 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > > 
> > > That is the point, how many package fail to build with ImageMagick7 ?
> > > we "just" need change requires on FTBFS packages (with ImageMagick7)
> > 
> > No it isn't the point. More things actually use the ImageMagick *CLI*
> > than use the library, and the CLI of ImageMagick 7 is very different
> > from the CLI of ImageMagick 6. This is the *main* reason we do not just
> > want to make the ImageMagick package suddenly become ImageMagick 7 -
> > because IM 7 does not provide the CLI people currently expect from the
> > package called 'ImageMagick'. It's not primarily about things which
> > build against the libraries.
> > --
> > 
> > 
> 
> You are wrong about this. I tested convert and identify in my v7 builds,
> and they work fine.

Uh...read this:

https://www.imagemagick.org/script/porting.php#cli

There's two-three pages (depending on your browser settings) of changes
to how the CLI works, many of them backwards-incompatible.

Just because there's still a command called 'convert' doesn't mean
everything is the same.
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