On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> 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 Currently, both gimp and gimp-devel are out of date.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 Anyway, the gimp packages have been out-of-date for several months 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 out-of-date for so long isn't a good idea either.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 :)
