On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Xavier <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 Currently, both gimp and gimp-devel are out of date.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 Anyway, the gimp packages have been out-of-date for several months 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 out-of-date for so long isn't a good idea either.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 :) >> > > 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. >
As no-one seem to care, I'll go with option 2 and update the packages sometime this week-end or next week.
