[Pkg-gnome-extras-maintainers] Bug#1126642: gimp-help: FTBFS: dh_missing: error: missing files, aborting

[Santiago Vila]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 11:01:25AM -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 10:57 AM Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> wrote:
> > Hmm, based on that, I would say there is a missing build-depends
> > here. Versioned with >= the package in the NEW queue.
> 
> No Build-Depends is needed. It is a single package that only provides
> translated help. Each translation is placed into a separate binary
> package. New translations were added with this release which means we
> either need to add new binary packages to contain those files or
> temporarily ignore the additional files that don't fit into any of the
> existing binary packages.
> 
> I was careless and didn't do a test build first. The build takes hours
> because it can't parallel build, for safety
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp-help/-/issues/513

Thanks for the additional info. In such case (long build time) doing
nothing and waiting for NEW to be resolved looks perfectly fine to me.

Thanks.