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 Currently, both gimp and gimp-devel are out of date.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 Anyway, the gimp packages have been out-of-date for several months 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 out-of-date for so long isn't a good idea either.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.
