On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:54:24PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Is this the end of ImageMagick development? If yes we should switch
> back to a working and well documented version.
There are more recent upstream versions available that probably fix a
number of the outstanding bugs. But they also introduce interface
incompatibilities that are not properly reflected in library versioning.
It's always been like that, so going back to an earlier version
basically gets us into the same kind of trouble as an upgrade to a more
recent upstream version. Clearly, imagemagick's upstream development
process is at the core of these problems. I'm currently preparing
official[1] packages of graphicsmagick, a fork of imagemagick that tries to
address the stability issues. (ITP will follow shortly.) Once it's in
the archive, a fair number of dependent packages should be able to
switch from imagemagick to graphicsmagick with little effort, and
hopefully get rid of some of the current problems along the way. I don't
have any good suggestions about the future of imagemagick packages, but
that's at the descretion of the imagemagick maintainer anyway.
Regards,
Daniel.
[1] Unofficial packages are floating around in the typo3 community
already, but they need some polishing.
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