Weird iteration order when displaying multiple images

[Rickard Westman]

The "display" command takes multiple image files on the command line. By using the File/Next command, those files used to be displayed one by one in the sequence given, but in this version, something weird happens instead which is easiest to explain through an example. Consider this command line:

  display 1.png 2.png 3.png 4.png

I would now expect images to be displayed in the order given, i.e. 1 2 3 4. Instead, the actual order observed is:

  1 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 4

I know this worked as expected in older versions of Imagemagick, but I unfortunately don't know exactly how far back you would have to go to get the correct/sensible behavior.

Version info as requested:

> lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
Release: 12.04

> apt-cache policy imagemagick
imagemagick:
  Installed: 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.3
  Candidate: 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.3
  Version table:
 *** 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages

[broucaries (roucaries-bastien+bugs)]

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=27557

[Rickard Westman (rwestman)]

After I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04.5, which has a new version of ImageMagick, I no longer see the problem. Not changing bug status since I'm not sure that's the right thing to do when the bug was reported against an older (but still supported) distribution which may still have the bug.

> lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04

> apt-cache policy imagemagick
imagemagick:
  Installed: 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.4
  Candidate: 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.4
  Version table:
 *** 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages