Bug#1084397: gimp: The /text along path/ option is missing

[Manny]

Package: gimp
Version: 2.10.34-1+deb12u2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: debbug.gimp at sideload.33mail.com

After creating a path, every single function in the menus was examined
in search of the /text along path/ function. It does not
exist. According to this guide:

  https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-text-management.html

the _Layer_ menu should have a “Text along Path” function. It’s simply
not there. This feature has apparently been entirely lost from the
UI. There is a Paths dialog box which contains a “Paint along path”
function, but no *text* along path.

Some extra background:

It should be noted as well that GIMP is extremely fragile and crash
prone when used on wayland. This bug:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1073788

only mentions threshold as a trigger but any operation with the
textbox tool also crashes GIMP and freezes my system. So I cannot
touch the textbox function. Hence why the “Text along Path” function
was sought. I thought it could be a workaround to the dysfunctional
textbox tool.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-28-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gimp depends on:
ii  gimp-data            2.10.34-1+deb12u2
ii  graphviz             2.42.2-7+deb12u1
ii  libaa1               1.4p5-50
ii  libbabl-0.1-0        1:0.1.98-1+b1
ii  libbz2-1.0           1.0.8-5+b1
ii  libc6                2.36-9+deb12u8
ii  libcairo2            1.16.0-7
ii  libfontconfig1       2.14.1-4
ii  libfreetype6         2.12.1+dfsg-5+deb12u3
ii  libgcc-s1            12.2.0-14
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0  2.42.10+dfsg-1+deb12u1
ii  libgegl-0.4-0        1:0.4.42-2
ii  libgexiv2-2          0.14.0-1+b1
ii  libgimp2.0           2.10.34-1+deb12u2
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.74.6-2+deb12u3
ii  libgs10              10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.33-2+deb12u1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0       237-2
ii  libharfbuzz0b        6.0.0+dfsg-3
ii  libheif1             1.15.1-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:2.1.5-2
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0   1.6.6-1
ii  libjxl0.7            0.7.0-10
ii  liblcms2-2           2.14-2
ii  liblzma5             5.4.1-0.2
ii  libmng1              1.0.10+dfsg-3.1+b5
ii  libmypaint-1.5-1     1.6.0-2
ii  libopenexr-3-1-30    3.1.5-5
ii  libopenjp2-7         2.5.0-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.50.12+ds-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.50.12+ds-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0    1.50.12+ds-1
ii  libpng16-16          1.6.39-2
ii  libpoppler-glib8     22.12.0-2+b1
ii  librsvg2-2           2.54.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1
ii  libstdc++6           12.2.0-14
ii  libtiff6             4.5.0-6+deb12u1
ii  libwebp7             1.2.4-0.2+deb12u1
ii  libwebpdemux2        1.2.4-0.2+deb12u1
ii  libwebpmux3          1.2.4-0.2+deb12u1
ii  libwmf-0.2-7         0.2.12-5.1
ii  libwmflite-0.2-7     0.2.12-5.1
ii  libx11-6             2:1.8.4-2+deb12u2
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.2.1-1
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.4-1+b1
ii  libxfixes3           1:6.0.0-2
ii  libxmu6              2:1.1.3-3
ii  libxpm4              1:3.5.12-1.1+deb12u1
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.3-4.1
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

Versions of packages gimp recommends:
ii  ghostscript  10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5

Versions of packages gimp suggests:
pn  gimp-data-extras          <none>
ii  gimp-help-en [gimp-help]  2.10.34-2
pn  gvfs-backends             <none>
ii  libasound2                1.2.8-1+b1

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