On May 6, 2005, at 5:32 AM, Art McGee wrote:
OK, let me see if I understand what is going on:
a. Back in April, a reproducible crash was found in GIMP 2.2.4 when using the text/font tool.
b. Because of this, sometime in the last couple of weeks, the Fink port of GIMP was rolled all the way back to 2.0.6.
It was reverted on April 8.
Now, here are my questions and comments:
1. It would be mighty nice if there was some procedure or method available to give us a little bit more information when packages are rolled back like this. Maybe some text in the database that says "We're sorry, but this is not the most current version of The GIMP. Our port is hosed, so we've rolled you back to the Middle Ages while we work on a fix. If you need the features of the latest version now, consider switching your OS to Linux."
Or how about this:
"We're sorry. We all work day jobs and volunteer our time for Fink, so that removes ~ 40 hours a week that we can devote to packages."
2. Was the crash verifiable on 2.2.4 and 2.2.6? It's unclear why a crash that may have occurred under 2.2.4 has caused us to regress to 2.0.6 instead of advancing forward to 2.2.6.
Feel free to make up a port that works and submit it then. We encourage an active and engaged user community.
3. Was it intentional that not only has The GIMP been lost in a time warp, but it's also been broken in such a way that even building the older version is impossible? All I get now are "can't resolve dependecy" and "missing package info" errors.
No, of course not!
Can you provide a literal example of an error message rather than just posting rants?
4. For those who have verified the crash on their machines, did you attempt to replicate it using the precompiled Gimp.app 2.2.6, just to confirm whether the problem is as universal as you believe? If Gimp.app doesn't crash, that may tell us something.
Clearly, you didn't try it yourself. You're absolutely free to do so.
5. Is there any ETA as to when The GIMP will be back to normal and up-to-date?
That's up to the package maintainer, who as I've said isn't paid for this.
Art
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