On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Currently, both gimp and gimp-devel are out of date. The latest versions require updates of both babl and gegl but the gegl app in the gegl package seg fault. This is a confirmed upstream issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591908. I've been waiting for a fix but nothing so far. This is still not fixed upstream and I wasn't able to find any patches. Either other distros haven't updated yet to gegl 0.1.0 or they have updated but haven't fixed the issue. If someone is interested in working toward making a patch, then it'll be much appreciated.
Anyway, the gimp packages have been out-of-date for several months now. On one hand, I'm not too warm about updating these packages knowing about the gegl seg fault problem (that's one reason why I've waited so long). On the other hand, having a popular package like gimp out-of-date for so long isn't a good idea either. So what should we do?
1) Continue to wait until we have a fix for the seg fault.
2) Update the packages knowing that the gegl binary will be broken until there is a patch or new gegl version that will fix it. Gegl support in gimp itself works fine as far as I could test it.
Any ideas, suggestions, comments are welcome.
Eric
Well at least there seems to be a clue about what's going on : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591908#c4 So probably efforts should be made in that direction :)
Sure, but I was unable to come up with a patch. I don't have much time to devote to Arch anymore. So, as far as I'm concerned, it'll be either one of the two proposed options.