GraphicsMagick Port Status

[Greg Larkin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-ports at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-ports at 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 at 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/