Hello Robert, I'm doing some casual poking around at the moment to see how easy it would be for this patch to be applied.
> The cage tool in 2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1 is broken. Details can be found here: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678085 > > If I am not mistaken 2.8.18 does not fix the issue. At least the > changelog at [1] does not indicate anything about a fix and target > milestone of the bug is 2.10. Do you see any chance that the fix for > this issue will be made available via patch in 16.04? I think otherwise. Look at when this Git tag was set upstream: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tag/?h=GIMP_2_8_18 tag date 2016-07-13 20:27:19 (GMT) This is the date for 2.8.16: tag date 2015-11-21 18:04:13 (GMT) Let's look at the timestamps on the two commits that were done to fix this problem: 2016-02-02 11:21:15 (GMT) 2016-02-07 17:50:11 (GMT) So unless there is some magical way to ensure commits don't land in a Git tag (which I highly doubt they would even WANT to do either way), it should be fixed. Since you know this issue better than I do, I've backported Yakkety's GIMP (2.8.18-1) to Xenial and I put it in ppa:tsimonq2/gimp-xenial for you to test. If this solves your issue, then I'll work on getting a debdiff for you to test against the Xenial version. It will most likely take (at least) a half an hour for all the sources to publish, so if you are reading this email right after I send it, please wait. :) After that, the process is fairly simple. Either of us would file a bug in Launchpad, then the Stable Release Update process[1] is followed to get it into Xenial[2]. Thanks for bringing this up! :) [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates [2] This is why I need to know if it exists in Yakkety, so I know if the fix needs to be uploaded to Yakkety first, because that's usually how the procedure goes. -- Simon Quigley [email protected] tsimonq2 on freenode and OFTC 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
