Ubuntu
gdk-pixbuf package

gdk-pixbuf does not depend on shared-mime-info

Bug #1032849 reported by Dave Benson
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This bug affects 3 people
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gdk-pixbuf (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

Without this package, you cannot load any format of image. (Obviously this is more a problem on server-type machines w/o X, since the shared-mime-info package is used by many other desktop packages).

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gdk-pixbuf (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Aarni Koskela (akx) wrote :

Just spent 4+ hours debugging a Python package down the line failing with "Unrecognized image file format", tracing it down to gdk-pixbuf.

A test case proving that this is indeed a bug: https://github.com/akx/ubuntu-gdk-pixbuf-pkg-bug

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