On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 11:35 AM, jean-christophe manciot <actionmysti...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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..
Respectfully, the build does work just fine. https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gimp I spent a fair amount of time today testing the build in different configurations with the appstream test. If you have appstream-util installed, you either need to have network access or build using --without-appdata-test (I applied that change in the Debian packaging repository today). Your specific error was because you had an old version of appstream-util installed (as mentioned on the upstream bug). Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
