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

[Felix M. Cobos]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 07:25:10PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 03/05/2019 05:39 PM, Joel Klinghed wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Yes, that seems to be more a side-effect of the ease of creating a release on
> git rather than the historical deliberative process of what to include, patch
> and the normal Q&A that takes place during the 'alpha', 'beta' stages before
> we reach a 'release'.
> 
> The changelog seems to reflect that Arch is NOT following the stable branch of
> imagemagick.
> 
> The latest release on the "Master" branch is:
> 
> Release build (7.0.8-27) (released 24 days ago)
> https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/releases/tag/7.0.8-27
> 
> Why are we not tracking Master?
> 
> -- 
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

>From https://www.imagemagick.org/

"The current release is ImageMagick 7.0.8-32."

-- 
Felix M. Cobos