bug#47479: closed (inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #47479,
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native-inputs
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:33:10 +0200 User-agent: Evolution 3.34.2

Hi Guix,

On
$ guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 510e24f973a918391d8122fd6ad515c0567bf23e

with
$ guix graph --type=references inkscape

it can be seen inkscape retains the reference to imagemagick,
even though imagemagick is in native-inputs.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Hi Leo et al.,
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> > Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
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> >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 04:55:13AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> >>> I see now that I'm using an older version, although I would have
> >>> preferred the newer one.  I refer to the variable name 'inkscape' from
> >>> my manifest file, and I expected that to point to the latest stable
> >>> version.  However, it seems that one must use the 'inkscape-1.0'
> >>> variable to get the latest stable version.  That's seems suboptimal.
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> >>> I wonder if the 'inkscape' variable should be renamed 'inkscape/stable'
> >>> (for use in packages such as 'dblatex/stable'), and then 'inkscape'
> >>> could be repurposed to point to the latest stable version.  Thoughts?
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> >> I think we should do this, or even remove the old Inkscape package now.
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> >> I'm guessing the reason for keeping the older release series is that
> >> the Inkscape save-file format changed?
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> > The reason inksape@0.92 is still kept around is becauseInkscape@1
> > doesn't build on ARM (more accurately, one of its dependencies,
> > lib2geom, doesn't).  It's been a while since I looked at the issue, and
> > it seems there may have been some activity in lib2geom upstream to try
> > to address the problem, so we should revisit it.
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> That's not relevant anymore, but our current inkscape 1.2 depends on
> imagemagick still.  Seeing how it now links directly to it, I've added
> it to inputs as well in commit 552ebc47af and pushed to core-updates.
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> Closing!
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> Thanks,
> Maxim
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