Bug#917782: [gimp] Missing symbol

[Paolo Redaelli]

First of all sorry for the late answer, Google tought your answer were
spam. :(

Il 30/12/18 15:51, Simon McVittie ha scritto:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 11:45:12 +0100, Paolo Redaelli wrote:
>> gimp: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgegl-0.4.so.0:
>> undefined symbol: babl_format_with_space
> Do you have a version of libbabl-0.1-0 installed from some apt
> source outside Debian, for instance deb-multimedia.org, or a copy of
> libbabl-0.1.so.0 in a non-dpkg-managed directory like /usr/local/lib?
>
> We have had recurring problems with deb-multimedia.org providing its own
> libbabl-0.1-0 and libgegl-0.4-0 packages, which are marked with higher
> version numbers than any official Debian version, causing them to satisfy
> versioned dependencies even when they should not.

Indeed you're right. After I removed the libbabl-0.10 which came from
deb-multimedia the issue was solved.

That's taught me to stick to Debian repositories and not tainting a
system: I removed deb-multimedia from my sources long ago, I thought its
effects were "faded"

>> libbabl-0.1-0 (>= 0.1.10) |
>> libgegl-0.4-0 (>= 0.4.12) |
> Either you do not have libbabl and libgegl installed, or (probably
> more likely) whatever software you were using to report this bug
> is not reporting installed packages correctly. 
I used reportbug-ng
> Please report bugs
> using the reportbug(1) tool from the reportbug package whenever
> possible.  The reportbug-ng package is not recommended, due to
> <https://bugs.debian.org/841527> (it is also no longer maintained).

I wasn't aware of its status. I'll stick to plain reportbug


> You can provide the same information that reportbug would have done
> by running "reportbug --template gimp" and pasting its output into an
> email to the bug address.

Thanks. Sorry for the lame bug.