Please include Gimp 2.8 from Debian experimental into Ubuntu 12.10

[AleLinux]

Could you please add Gimp 2.8 from Debian experimental into Ubuntu 12.10?

Thanks.

[Dmitry Tantsur (divius)]

Gimp 2.8 is expected to arrive in mid-March. I doubt it would be possible to include it even if 12.04 weren't an LTS release

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

Meanwhile, it might help: I just installed GIMP 2.8 from a working PPA (64bit).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp (not sure, you might also need [otto's ppa]/gimp-libs)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

I run 2.8 now and it's great!

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I'm working on merging into quantal, if you're interested in a backport, please use the requestbackport tool from ubuntu-dev-tools once it's in quantal. That tool will let you know how much testing is required for the backport.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gimp - 2.8.0-2ubuntu1

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gimp (2.8.0-2ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #908472). Remaining Changes:
    - debian/patches/02_help-message.patch,
      debian/patches/03_gimp.desktop.in.in.patch:
      + Update some strings for Ubuntu
    - debian/control:
      + Update description
    - debian/rules:
      + Set gettext domain and update translation templates
  * Drop the following patches that were applied upstream:
    - debian/patches/ghost-cursor.patch: fix Wacom tablet cursor events
    - debian/patches/embed-page-setup-dialog.patch

gimp (2.8.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Jordi Mallach ]
  * Use a shlibs.local file to force a dependency on libbabl >= 0.1.10.
    GIMP has an internal check for this version and will refuse to start
    otherwise, as it relies on some optimisations made to babl in
    0.1.8 → 0.1.10 (closes: #672247).

  [ Ari Pollak ]
  * Add Breaks/Replaces on old gimp-plugin-registry because of conflicting
    file-xmc plugin.

gimp (2.8.0-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream stable release (closes: #644182, #671399).
    - “Create” menu item is now accessible via a mnemonic (closes: #610579).
    - fixes build error with GEGL 0.2 (closes: #671982).
  * Massive update of Build-Depends, to ensure all new features are
    enabled (bzip2 compression, JPEG 2000, Ghostscript, PDF export, GUdev,
    X Mourse Cursor and others), as per configure.ac.
  * Build depend on unversioned libpng-dev (closes: #662347).
  * Don't pass --without-hal to configure, it's obsolete.
  * Build-Depend on gnome-pkg-tools and include check-dist.mk.
  * Update Vcs-* URLs.
  * Remove duplicate Section fields.
  * Remove gimp.preinst, it only handled upgrades from pre-lenny.
  * Use an explicit "set -e" in other maint scripts, instead of using the
    shebang.
  * Drop 01_debian_gimprc.patch, obsolete. The web-browser config option
    is now gone and by default gimp will open help internally.
  * Rename fix_gimp4hurd.patch to 01_hurd_ftbfs.patch.
  * Drop part of 01_hurd_ftbfs.patch which has been applied upstream, and
    add a patch header.
  * Update watch file so it works for any new stable release directories.
  * Rewrite copyright file in machine-readable format 1.0. The GIMP is now
    licensed under the (L)GPLv3+.
  * Pass -- -V -c4 to dh_makeshlibs.
  * Rename all .files files to .install, and stop calling dh_movefiles.
  * Rename BUILDDIR to “builddir”, as “build” is now a real directory in
    the distribution.
  * Add myself to Uploaders.
  * Configure with --disable-static and stop distributing .a files.
  * Update libgimp2.0.symbols.
  * Build-Depend on GTK-2.0, GDK-Pixbuf and GLib -doc packages to ensure
    proper cross-reference links in generated gtk-doc API documentation.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3, with no further changes.
 -- Micah Gersten <email address hidden> Sun, 20 May 2012 19:21:01 -0500

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

Micah, there are so many reverse depends to test for requesting a backport of Gimp 2.8 to precise. :-(

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I know, it makes a backport really difficult :), people could team together to test it though

[Dac Chartrand (conner-bw)]

I'm sorry, I'm new and I don't understand the Ubuntu bug system.

In the title this bug says "and backport to 12.04 LTS" Programmers know what *AND* means, right? ;) It's not conditional.

I read "Fix Released" but I can't find this in Ubuntu 12.04? How do I request a backport?

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Hi, there is some more information about the backport process at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports

[Iain Lane (laney)]

There is already a backport request in bug #1002780. It'd be appreciated if people helped with testing there.

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

Per laney's comment, I am removing the backport request from this bug (and marking the affecting of Precise Backports as Invalid). Please see Bug #1002780 for the backport request filed using the script in ubuntu-dev-tools.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Oops... didn't see that!