On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 17:41 +0100, Kalev Lember wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 5:38 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 11:34 AM Kalev Lember
> > <kalevlem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 5:26 PM Sérgio Basto <ser...@serjux.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 11:57 +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
> > wrote:
> > >> > On 03/12/2022 00:30, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > >> > > The proposal now is to keep ImageMagick 6 and make a new
> > package
> > >> > > with
> > >> > > ImageMagick 7 , when we have all applications use only
> > ImageMagick
> > >> > > 7,
> > >> > > we move the sources from ImageMagick7 to ImageMagick
> > >> >
> > >> > I think it would be better to update the ImageMagick package
> > to
> > >> > version
> > >> > 7 and create a compatibility package ImageMagick6.
> > >>
> > >> Anyone is going to review the package or not ?
> > >>
> > >> I already explain the situation in the other emails on this
> > thread .
> > >>
> > >> I estimate that I will need about 200 hours to do what your
> > brilliants
> > >> minds ask .
> > >>
> > >> And btw, asking to the others to have the work that you maybe
> > don't
> > >> have in your packages , is very easy. if I do the compat package
> > and
> > >> wait for 200 packages dependency adapt to the change, will be a
> > chaos ,
> > >> and I don't like ignore all the tickets opened around it.
> > >>
> > >> ImageMagick-7.0.1-10 was release on 2016-06-07, today is 2022-
> > 12-03 so
> > >> after 6 Years and 5 Months and 26 Days, we still haven't  any
> > >> ImageMagick 7 in Fedora or EL, so or you help me on do it in my
> > way ,
> > >> or I won't do it .
> > >>
> > >> That is why package guidelines should be a guide and not all 
> > and not
> > >> the all truth rule, when in practice you don't follow it just
> > claim it.
> > >
> > >
> > > I think it makes sense to do it the way Sergio is planning as it
> > makes it all much much easier. I don't think we should set a too
> > high bar here wrt the package naming; anything is an improvement if
> > we can start getting the distro migrating to ImageMagick 7.
> > >
> > > We can always rename ImageMagick -> ImageMagick6 and ImageMagick7
> > -> ImageMagick at a later date when someone has the energy to do
> > it.
> > >
> > > Don't let perfect be the enemy of good :)
> > >
> > 
> > It matters in this case because both packages provide stuff in
> > /usr/bin, and we only should have one provider of those.
> > ImageMagick
> > should retain them, and the ImageMagick6 compat package should only
> > provide libraries for stuff that can't link to the IM7 libraries.
> > 
> 
> 
> Ah, yes, that's a good point. I think we have a bunch of packages
> that 'BuildRequires: ImageMagick' and then use /usr/bin/convert
> during the build to convert icons from one format to another. Other
> packages require /usr/bin/convert for runtime use.
> 
> Sergio, what's your plan for handling /usr/bin/convert?


Thank you Kalev , 

I don't indent change /usr/bin/convert from ImageMagick6 so probably it
will /usr/bin/convert-7 

Note that I checked Remi package and copied some ideas from there, so
also should check how Remi handle this . 

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