On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 11:34 AM Kalev Lember <kalevlember@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 5:26 PM Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
