Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:01:37 -0400 From: "Greg Larkin" <glarkin@sourcehosting.net> To: "'Bob Friesenhahn'" <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>, <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: GraphicsMagick Port Status Message-ID: <009c01c8c829$48246c20$0c01a8c0@FIREBALL> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0806061138550.14355@freddy.simplesystems.org> References: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0806061138550.14355@freddy.simplesystems.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bob Friesenhahn > > I am the maintainer for the image processing package known as > GraphicsMagick. A few weeks ago, the FreeBSD port maintainer > for GraphicsMagick became upset and quit. This leaves me a > bit concerned since my project is left in limbo. > > As of yesterday, the current GraphicsMagick releases are > 1.1.14 (legacy stable) and 1.2.3 (current stable). FreeBSD > only offers 1.1.12. There are important security fixes (what > Debian classifies as > "grave") contained in these releases. > > I see that someone has picked up the ImageMagick port. Can > someone please take responsibility for the GraphicsMagick > port so that GraphicsMagick users (e.g. KDE) are not left > behind? Maintaining the GraphicsMagick port is similar to > maintaining the ImageMagick port (except for being much easier). > > It is important that FreeBSD ports make it over the hurdle > and move up to the 1.2.X baseline. There are four additional > years of development and bug fixing in the 1.2 branch. Due to > time constraints, usually only fixes for serious issues are > back-ported to the 1.1 branch. > > Thanks, > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > Hi Bob, I just submitted a PR to update GraphicsMagick to v1.2.3 in the FreeBSD ports tree, and I cc'd you on it. All of the post-install tests passed, but if you or anyone else runs into problems with the port, let me know. Regards, Greg Larkin SourceHosting.net, LLC http://www.sourcehosting.net/
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