Bug#872419: gimp: Toolbox icons missed

[Thorben T.]

Package: gimp
Version: 2.10.22-4
Followup-For: Bug #872419

i experienced the same issue, and found that this is caused by not having
librsvg2-common installed.
gimp depends on librsvg2-2, but librsvg2-2 merrily recommends librsvg2-common.
i disabled installation of recommended packages on my system.

i can't tell if this is the intended behaviour when disabling recommends.
but i guess it should be considered to have gimp depend on librsvg2-common.
it seems that gimp depends on librsvg2-2, expecing to use it to render svg
icons, but what gimp _actually_ requires is
gdk-pixbuf-2.0/*/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so
which is in librsvg2-common.
(gimp executes fine without librsvg2-2 - except for the icons.)

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 3:51 PM Thorben T. <r0...@constancy.org> wrote:
> i experienced the same issue, and found that this is caused by not having
> librsvg2-common installed.
> gimp depends on librsvg2-2, but librsvg2-2 merrily recommends librsvg2-common.
> i disabled installation of recommended packages on my system.
>
> i can't tell if this is the intended behaviour when disabling recommends.
> but i guess it should be considered to have gimp depend on librsvg2-common.

Yes, we could do this. Please know that you will have many missing
features (or added bugs) if you disable installing recommends. You
likely won't know why things aren't working because the missing
recommends may be far down the dependency stack like it was in this
case. Most Debian Developers do not disable recommends which means it
is not really a tested configuration. You're on your own then. Good
luck!

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

[Thorben T.]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 06:41:19PM -0500, Jeremy B??cha wrote:
> Yes, we could do this. [...]

thanks for your response,
but 94% of it appear to consist of you trying to educate me about
recommends, which is off-topic. (and i find it inappropriate and
offensive.)

i was not complaining, i can deal with this just fine,
you can close this ticket as "working as intended" all you like.
(but as this had not been done five years ago, it would appear
that my reply was necessary.)

- T.

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 9:16 PM Thorben T. <r0...@constancy.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 06:41:19PM -0500, Jeremy B??cha wrote:
> > Yes, we could do this. [...]
>
> thanks for your response,
> but 94% of it appear to consist of you trying to educate me about
> recommends, which is off-topic. (and i find it inappropriate and
> offensive.)

I'm sorry if I came across as rude. I only meant that there are other
more subtle issues you will probably run into.

Your feedback was useful and this bug should be fixed as you
suggested. Debian is effectively in Hard Freeze now so there is extra
paperwork we need to do if we are going to fix this bug for Debian 12.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha