Bug#1099419: gimp 3.0 crash on startup due to incorrect dependency on librsvg2

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM Woody Suwalski <terraluna977 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have found that dependencies of the Gimp package are incorrect - it
> depends on
> librsvg2, but it should have depended on librsvg2-common, which would have
> pulled in librsvg2 as well.

librsvg2-2 Recommends librsvg2-common. Please don't disable installing
Recommends on your system by default since it's um, not recommended.
Most package maintainers don't run Debian without Recommends. Many
features on your system will be broken if you do. The more people that
disable Recommends by default, the more incentive there is for package
maintainers to make all dependencies Depends so that they can ensure
things work properly for everyone.

I encourage you to read what Debian Policy §7.2 has to say about
Recommends. Debian says your system is "unusual" if it doesn't install
Recommends by default.
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends

Anyway, I plan to add your suggested Depends in my next upload of gimp
which will probably happen in a few days.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha