Package: gimp1.2 Version: 1.2.3-2.4 Severity: normal Hi,
Installed the gimp, I got a message suggesting me to install gimp1.2-nonfree I find non-appropriate for a package in main to advertise for non-free packages in non-free, which is theoretically not part of Debian -- a package part of Debian should not assume that these packages exists, a package part of Debian should not incitate users to install non-free software. I add this report to debian-devel in Cc because I suppose that it may need a public debate. Side note: the non-free package in question seems to ship only GIF support. I thought that the patent on LZW was over. But, worse, why can't the gimp no longer save GIF files, without the LZW compression? Should I fill a bug against the gimp package? It that due to the existence of a package in non-free providing full gif support -- would be really astonishing (removing functionalities that works feeely in the package in main and incitating to install non-free stuff) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux ulysse 2.4.23-pre7 #6 mar oct 21 18:19:23 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages gimp1.2 depends on: ii aalib1 1.4p5-18 ascii art library ii libc6 2.3.2-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgimp1.2 1.2.3-2.4 Libraries necessary to run the GIM ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-9 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-16 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo ii libgtkxmhtml1 1.4.2-16 The GNOME gtkxmhtml (HTML) widget ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libmpeg1 1.3.1-2.1 The MPEG library calls for movie s ii libpng2 1.0.15-4 PNG library, older version - runti ii libtiff3g 3.5.7-2 Tag Image File Format library ii slang1 1.4.9-2 The S-Lang programming library - r ii wget 1.9-1 retrieves files from the web ii xlibs 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody2 X Window System client libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-16 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- Mathieu Roy +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/ | | Not a native english speaker: | | http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
