Bug#915138: gimp: complains that "SVG file does not specify a size!"

[Eric Cooper]

Package: gimp
Version: 2.10.8-1
Severity: normal

Here is the header of an SVG file that:
(1) displays correctly in programs like inkscape and eog
(2) used to open without problem in earlier versions of Gimp

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<svg
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
   xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   id="svg9"
   preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet"
   viewBox="0 0 920.0001 161.99292"
   height="202.49115"
   width="1150.0001"
   version="1.0">
  <defs
     id="defs13" />
  <metadata
     id="metadata2">
Created by potrace 1.8, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2007
<rdf:RDF>
  <cc:Work
     rdf:about="">
    <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
    <dc:type
       rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
    <dc:title></dc:title>
  </cc:Work>
</rdf:RDF>
[...]

Gimp no longer recognizes the size.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
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  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gimp depends on:
ii  gimp-data            2.10.8-1
ii  libaa1               1.4p5-44+b2
ii  libbabl-0.1-0        0.1.60-1
ii  libbz2-1.0           1.0.6-9
ii  libc6                2.27-8
ii  libcairo2            1.16.0-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.13.1-2
ii  libfreetype6         2.9.1-3
ii  libgcc1              1:8.2.0-9
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.38.0+dfsg-6
ii  libgegl-0.4-0        0.4.12-1
ii  libgexiv2-2          0.10.8-1
ii  libgimp2.0           2.10.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.58.1-2
ii  libgs9               9.26~dfsg-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.32-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0       232-2
ii  libharfbuzz0b        2.1.1-1+b1
ii  libheif1             1.3.2-1+b1
ii  libilmbase23         2.2.1-2
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.5.2-2+b1
ii  liblcms2-2           2.9-3
ii  liblzma5             5.2.2-1.3
ii  libmng1              1.0.10+dfsg-3.1+b5
ii  libmypaint-1.3-0     1.3.0-2
ii  libopenexr23         2.2.1-4
ii  libopenjp2-7         2.3.0-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.42.4-4
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.42.4-4
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0    1.42.4-4
ii  libpng16-16          1.6.34-2
ii  libpoppler-glib8     0.69.0-2
ii  librsvg2-2           2.44.9-1
ii  libstdc++6           8.2.0-9
ii  libtiff5             4.0.10-3
ii  libwebp6             0.6.1-2
ii  libwebpdemux2        0.6.1-2
ii  libwebpmux3          0.6.1-2
ii  libwmf0.2-7          0.2.8.4-14
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.15-2
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxmu6              2:1.1.2-2
ii  libxpm4              1:3.5.12-1
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.3-1
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

Versions of packages gimp recommends:
ii  ghostscript  9.26~dfsg-1

Versions of packages gimp suggests:
pn  gimp-data-extras          <none>
pn  gimp-help-en | gimp-help  <none>
pn  gimp-python               <none>
pn  gvfs-backends             <none>
ii  libasound2                1.1.7-1+b1

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