gimp cage tool - fix in 16.04?

[Robert Klemme]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> In other words, it was only committed to master after the gimp-2-8
>> branch was made; and there's no evidence that this was cherry-picked
>> onto the gimp-2-8 branch (from a quick log inspection).  It indeed does
>> not appear that this commit is in 2.8.18, although it should be in 2.9.4
>> (an unstable-series release).  It might be worth asking upstream whether
>> it can be fixed in the 2.8 series.

That matches what I understood from comment 25: the change was way
later than 2.18 was released so 2.18 likely sits on a branch and
master is the current development version.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678085#c25

> Nice catch, thank you. I *thought* that was on master at the time of the
> git tag, but the web interface tricked me. I learned a new git command
> today. ;)
>
> So in other words, Robert, it's very unlikely that the package I
> uploaded to that PPA will fix your problem. We'll have to wait for that
> patch to be backported, and I don't know if there's a clean way to do
> that as that branch might be far ahead of master. I'll keep the PPA
> there and I'll keep my eye out for when that gets into master (so it can
> be applied easily). I'll dig into this more in a bit, and I'll see if I
> can comment on that bug, citing this email thread.

Thank you guys for checking! Does it make sense to poke Ari and Jordi
(original maintainers according to
http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gimp )?

Kind regards

robert

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