Hi, Patches are needed for a security point of view but it is likely a problem of backport intereaction.
Could you help by pin point the problem. as root install a few package needed for imagemagick compilation: apt-get install git apt-get build-dep imagemagick as a user git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/imagemagick.git cd imagemagick git checkout debian-patches/6.8.9.9-5+deb8u4 git bisect start git bisect bad git bissect good debian-patches/6.8.9.9-5+deb8u3 Once you have specified at least one bad and one good commit, git bisect selects a commit in the middle of that range of history, checks it out, and outputs something similar to the following: Bisecting: 675 revisions left to test after this (roughly 10 steps) You should now compile the checked-out version and test it. If that version works correctly, type. Compiling is done by typing ./configure make check you could run the command without installing by runing the convert.sh wrapper ./magick.sh convert geometry 40% tux.png tux-scaled-old.ppm if bad run git bisect bad and rerun compile and testing if good run git bisect good Some pointer could be found in man git bisect Bastien