Source: imagemagick Version: 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-2 Severity: serious Affects: wand Justification: makes other packages ftbfs X-Debbugs-Cc: havard.f.aa...@pfft.no
imagemagick no longer sets "PACKAGE_RELEASE_DATE" in configure.ac, this is due to the Debian patch 0022-Embeds-date-dependent-on-timezone.patch. This code in question now looks for a file that does not exist, and therefore fails, it also generates a error message that is readable from the build log [1]. > date: ./ChangeLog: No such file or directory The field "PACKAGE_RELEASE_DATE" is being used multiple places within imagemagic, and one of them is GetMagickReleaseDate() that now returns an empty string. I suspect that this bug affects imagemagick itself and possible other packages as well, but perhaps not as severe as wand, that requires this information when running the test-suite. I believe the easiest, and correct, solution is to drop the patch altogether. Regards, -- Håvard [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=imagemagick&arch=amd64&ver=8%3A6.9.12.98%2Bdfsg1-2&stamp=1698003612&raw=0
