I pull the sources within the sid chroot from https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/gimp. You can try yourself to build gimp from an up-to-date sid chroot without appstream-util pre-installed. You will notice that it is not pulled by dpkg-checkbuilddeps and that the build will consequently fail..
On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 5:23 PM Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 11:19 AM, jean-christophe manciot > <actionmysti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There is a misunderstanding: this thread is about an up-to-date sid > chroot > > built of gimp. > > The build would not have failed in an up-to-date sid chroot with > networking. > > The error you posted in this bug must have been from your Ubuntu 17.10 > build. > > Thanks, > Jeremy Bicha > -- Jean-Christophe
