[arch-general] Any particular reason for daily imagemagick updates?

[Joel Klinghed]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 17:30:24 -0600
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
>   More an observation than a problem, but is there any security
> reason for the flood of imagemagick updates, or are we basically
> getting nightlies every time a commit is pushed? Example:
> 
> 5 hours     Update to 7.0.8.32	arojas
> 27 hours    Update to 7.0.8.31	arojas
> 2 days      Update to 7.0.8.30	arojas
> 5 days      Update to 7.0.8.29	arojas
> 
>   That's 4 in the past 5 days alone and two within 24 hours. It's
> small enough that updates are no issue, it just seems odd that the
> upstream release cycle is really that frequent.
> 

Well, the changelog (https://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php) 
is fairly clear about the upstream release cycle:

2019-03-05 7.0.8-32 
2019-03-04 7.0.8-31
2019-03-03 7.0.8-30
2019-02-28 7.0.8-29

/JK