[Bug 1345803] [NEW] imagemagick should be built with WebP support

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Background discussion:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/251950/imagemagick-convert-cant-convert-
to-webp

The very simple fix is to have the Ubuntu build scripts changed to
enable WebP support per the comments:

"""
The Ubuntu source package for imagemagick does not declare a build dependency on libwebp-dev. Thus imagemagick gets built without webp support. This could be considered a bug in Ubuntu.

Relevant output from the build process:

checking for WEBP... 
checking webp/decode.h usability... no
checking webp/decode.h presence... no
checking for webp/decode.h... no
checking for WebPDecodeRGB in -lwebp... no
checking if WEBP package is complete... no

And when libwebp-dev Install libwebp-dev is installed:

checking for WEBP... 
checking webp/decode.h usability... yes
checking webp/decode.h presence... yes
checking for webp/decode.h... yes
checking for WebPDecodeRGB in -lwebp... yes
checking if WEBP package is complete... yes

If you want to fix this just for yourself, you can rebuild the package
and install your version:

cd /tmp
mkdir imagemagick
cd imagemagick
sudo apt-get build-dep imagemagick
sudo apt-get install libwebp-dev devscripts
apt-get source imagemagick
cd imagemagick-*
debuild -uc -us
sudo dpkg -i ../*magick*.deb
"""

** Affects: imagemagick (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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imagemagick should be built with WebP support
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1345803
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