Bug#900819: gimp: Dependency on liblcms2-2 needs tightening

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Michael Deegan,

Thanks for your bug report.

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 08:40:22PM +0800, Michael Deegan wrote:
> Package: gimp
> Version: 2.10.2-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Gimp 2.10's versioned dependency on liblcms2-2 probably needs to be ">= 2.9"
> instead of ">= 2.7", as otherwise people cherry-picking from unstable may
> see:
[...]

Recent Gimp needs >= 2.8 and that is specified in the build-dependencies
of gimp already. Unfortunately liblcms2 lacks the
"Build-Depends-Package: liblcms2-dev" meta-header in
debian/liblcms2-2.symbols which means the build-time dependency isn't
reflected in the runtime dependency. (See man deb-symbols)

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson

PS. While this might seem as a minor bug, severity is specified by
policy and this is actually a 'serious' bug (and thus Release Critical).
OTOH I think it's best fixed in liblcms2 instead of gimp....
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