From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 23:01:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 853741065671 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:01:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@sourcehosting.net) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (113901-app1.sourcehosting.net [72.32.213.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7274C8FC13 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:01:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@sourcehosting.net) Received: from 68-189-244-97.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.244.97] helo=Gregory-Larkins-Computer.local) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1K4kwK-0002W6-FU; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:01:45 -0400 Received: from FIREBALL (fireball.entropy.prv [192.168.1.12]) by Gregory-Larkins-Computer.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FDB92017AC0; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:01:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Greg Larkin" To: "'Bob Friesenhahn'" , References: Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:01:37 -0400 Organization: SourceHosting.net, LLC Message-ID: <009c01c8c829$48246c20$0c01a8c0@FIREBALL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 thread-index: AcjH+QG8bQG8sfZjQSGlA4UQ3dCukgAL3wYA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) Cc: Subject: RE: GraphicsMagick Port Status X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@sourcehosting.net List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:01:46 -0000 > -----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/