Bug#897179: FTBFS: A build dependency is lacking: appstream-util (>= 0.7.7)

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 11:35 AM, jean-christophe manciot
<actionmystique at 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