On 09/02/2017 08:10 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Would we be keeping these separate for a long time? Alternatives are
really pretty ugly and I'd hate to see that introduced just for one
release.
After handling all the rebuilds for version 7, it is pretty rare for an upstream to
support version 7 right now. I would strike an uneducated guess at 1-2 years for
upstreams to come around to porting. It would not surprise me if some upstreams stay
at version 6 unless ImageMagick decides to stop supporting version 6. Not to mention
the dead upstreams where we will have to port ourselves or our friends at Canonical
and Debian that don't even have version 7 (or a recent version 6) in their repos.