Rob Church wrote:
Just wondering if we've got an established procedure or schedule for upgrading the various rendering and rasterizing dependencies, such as librsvg, ImageMagick, etc. on a regular basis?
Not really, at the moment. :P :)
I ask because http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10207 ("Upgrade librsvg to version 2.18.0", which was also a request for 2.16.0) doesn't strike me as something we should need to repeat each time a new version comes out.
librsvg upgrades, in particular, are useful, because they often fix various upstream SVG rasterization bugs.
We'll have to make sure it doesn't interfere with other packages on the new Ubuntu setup, but hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to keep up that way.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)