ImageMagick without rsvg Support

[Hajo Locke]

Hello,

imagemagick 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.4 which is bundled with Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS/bionic is explicitely compiled with --without-rsvg
This disables rsvg support and forces fallback to msvg renderer which is rudimentary functionrange.
Why this?
In Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS/xenial rsvg support is still active.

[Hajo Locke (hajo-locke)]

p.s. in changelog of package is no hint why rsvg support was dropped, so i had to ask. rsvg is very useful, please reenable if possible.

[Hajo Locke (hajo-locke)]

Hello,

please leave a short comment on this issue. I dont expect a quick solution etc. in this case, but i think within 9 days it should be possible to write a short comment explaining this decision on imagemagick .

Thanks,
Hajo

[Mark Roeling (mark.roeling)]

I second this request. Even the official SVG logo can not be converted properly with only MSVG support. It needs RSVG.
Building from source would work, but is not an option in an automated environment.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[H Geerts (hgeerts)]

Still no rsvg support in eoan imagemagick 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu3.1
This is very inconvenient for tools such as sphinx that automatically convert svg to something compatible with the build output format.