Recent changes to 439: Test-suite fails with ImageMagick >=7.1.2-9

#439 Test-suite fails with ImageMagick >=7.1.2-9

Jeffrey Ratcliffe — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:21:48 -0000

This bug has now hit Debian sid. I'll have to skip the test in sid to avoid FTBFS. Your bug report is now seeing some attention.

#439 Test-suite fails with ImageMagick >=7.1.2-9

Jeffrey Ratcliffe — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:09:52 -0000

300x300 without a unit should normally default to dots (pixels) per inch. And living in a land that uses SI units, I would be also happy for it to default to pixels per cm. But the new behaviour ends up being 72 ppi, which makes far less sense than anything else.

#439 Test-suite fails with ImageMagick >=7.1.2-9

Andreas Wiese — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:36:04 -0000

Okay, so I filed a bug against ImageMagick (I hope to have gotten this right). But I'm not quite convinced here. So yes, identify doesn't report a resolution anymore, but isn't this actually correct without a unit? I mean, what does 300x300 tell without a unit?

#439 Test-suite fails with ImageMagick >=7.1.2-9

Jeffrey Ratcliffe — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 09:43:17 -0000

If you compare the output of identify, whereas in previous versions, the resolution metadata was still present in the image, plus the undefined units, in this new version, the resolution is completely missing. I'm calling this a bug in Imagemagick.

#439 Test-suite fails with ImageMagick >=7.1.2-9

Andreas Wiese — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:24:20 -0000

$ magick -version
Version: ImageMagick 7.1.2-9 Q16-HDRI x86_64 5cff2fc4f:20251128 https://imagemagick.org
Copyright: (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI OpenMP(4.5) 
Delegates (built-in): bzlib cairo djvu fftw fontconfig freetype heic jng jp2 jpeg jxl lcms lqr openexr pangocairo png raqm raw rsvg tiff webp x xml zlib zstd
Compiler: gcc (14.3)
$ magick -units Undefined -density 300 xc:white test.jpg
$ identify -verbose test.jpg
Image:
  Filename: test.jpg
  Permissions: rw-r--r--
  Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
  Mime type: image/jpeg
  Class: PseudoClass
  Geometry: 1x1+0+0
  Units: Undefined
  Colorspace: Gray
  Type: Grayscale
  Base type: Undefined
  Endianness: Undefined
  Depth: 12/16-bit
  Channels: 2.0
  Channel depth:
    Gray: 16-bit
  Channel statistics:
    Pixels: 1
    Gray:
      min: 4095  (1)
      max: 4095 (1)
      mean: 4095 (1)
      median: 4095 (1)
      standard deviation: 0 (0)
      kurtosis: 0
      skewness: 0
      entropy: 0
  Colormap entries: 4096
  Colormap:
  Rendering intent: Undefined
  Gamma: 0.454545
  Matte color: grey74
  Background color: white
  Border color: srgb(223,223,223)
  Transparent color: black
  Interlace: None
  Intensity: Undefined
  Compose: Over
  Page geometry: 1x1+0+0
  Dispose: Undefined
  Iterations: 0
  Compression: JPEG
  Quality: 92
  Orientation: Undefined
  Properties:
    date:create: 2025-12-20T18:23:06+00:00
    date:modify: 2025-12-20T18:23:06+00:00
    date:timestamp: 2025-12-20T18:23:12+00:00
    jpeg:colorspace: 1
    jpeg:sampling-factor: 1x1
    signature: ea0eb021dc2ad082eb7325b55ba9a512899156fc727e9c318c8ee581965fd5b0
  Artifacts:
    verbose: true
  Tainted: False
  Filesize: 160B
  Number pixels: 1
  Pixel cache type: Memory
  Pixels per second: 4404P
  User time: 0.000u
  Elapsed time: 0:01.000
  Version: ImageMagick 7.1.2-9 Q16-HDRI x86_64 5cff2fc4f:20251128 https://imagemagick.org
$

#439 Test-suite fails with ImageMagick >=7.1.2-9

Jeffrey Ratcliffe — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:54:24 -0000

Thanks for the report. Debian testing still has 7.1.2-8, so I can't reproduce this. Please try the following with 7.1.2-9 and attach the jpg to the report:

magick -units Undefined -density 300 xc:white test.jpg

What does the following then return?

identify -verbose test.jpg

#439 Test-suite fails with ImageMagick >=7.1.2-9

Andreas Wiese — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:16:46 -0000

Addendum: I'm trying to build gscan2pdf-2.13.5 with perl-5.40 on NixOS 25.11.

Test-suite fails with ImageMagick >=7.1.2-9

Andreas Wiese — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:12:16 -0000

With ImageMagick >=7.1.2-9 the test suite fails with

#   Failed test 'undefined'
#   at t/04_Page.t line 114.
#          got: '72'
#     expected: '300'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 12.

I bisected ImageMagick 7.1.2-8..7.1.2-9 to commit f46647c030 (»Correct parsing of the density«), which sound totally plausible.

Unfortunately, I don't have the expertise to fix this myself, so I cannot provide a patch. But at least you should know quite well what's going on. :)