[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/imagemagick: change download url to github

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Jun 20 12:40:14 UTC 2017


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

>> > I indeed hadn't seen the stupid name for the tarball. On my side, I
 >> > find it a bit annoying that we have to rely on sources.b.o to make
 >> > things work, so having upstream location that are working on the long
 >> > run is much better when possible. But I agree that the tarball name is
 >> > really silly here, and the risk of conflict with other packages is real.  
 >> 
 >> That is exactly my concern. So what do we do? Leave it like this so
 >> s.b.o isn't needed or revert to get back a sane tarball name?
 >> 
 >> There's pro/cons to both, but I think I would prefer to revert.

 > Perhaps we could revert *and* talk to the upstream developers and ask
 > them to keep the tarballs at the same place, instead of (re)moving
 > them ?

That is certainly worth a try. It is imagemagick though, so you never
know. They seem to really remove all <version>-<minor> except the latest
<minor> in each series.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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