Bug#903514: gimp: completely broken

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 17:20 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> I don't know. It works fine here. Could you try to be more specific
> about *when* things stopped working?

I'm afraid I have no idea... I noticed it a week ago, which doesn't
mean though, that it wasn't introduced earlier.

Wasn't there recently some change in the python packaging, when Python
2 was split out into python2* packages (which the normal "python*"
packages depend upon however)?


> Does it help if you install gimp-python?

Hmm, at least not at a first glance... 

When starting plain:
$ gimp
or when opening some
$ gimp foo.png
it hangs at it's GUI splash screen at "python-eval.py".

After Ctrl+C there's a
 24556 pts/6    Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/python-eval.py -gimp 14 13 -query 0
left.


> Do you have anything unusual with your python install?
Nothing that I'd know of (I'm actually not using Python myself, so it's
only plain package installations as required for dependencies)


> Does python
> otherwise work?
It seems so... or at least soooo many other things in a normal desktop
Debian use python... nothing of that shows any issues recently.


Thanks!