On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 17:59 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 08/25/2017 05:51 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> That patch is at the least clearly not upstreamable, because it just
> changes everything to 7-style, it would prevent emacs compiling against
> 6. I don't think emacs would merge a patch which is*only* compatible
> with 7, I think they're much more likely to prefer a patch which makes
> emacs build and work with both.
Obviously.
I'm going to have to make two passes on the rebuilds to generate upstreamable
patches based on my time I have available.
OK, so honestly, the more I think about this, the less convinced I am
that it's *at all* a good idea for Fedora 27 to get ImageMagick 7 very
late, and without a Change process. 6 -> 7 is a very major, disruptive
change (not just to the libraries, but to the CLI, which is *widely*
used in scripts), and I really don't think we should be just stuffing
it in there like this.
Consequently, I've filed a ticket requesting FESCo consideration:
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1766
Please do chime in with your thoughts there (everyone who's interested
in this issue). Thanks!
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