Editing chestnuts with gimp
This week-end, I wanted to edit a chestnut image, to put some brightness on this blog (and I love doing chestnut things). So, I fired up cooker's gimp. But I didn't really expect this marathon...
First, gimp 2.317 is not really usable, as explained on the release notes, mainly because of a segfault on selection copy. So, I backported revision 22643 patch from Gimp, and rebuilt the package. It still again. After the backport of several more patches that make proper use of g_slice, gimp still failed to run properly.
But this time, it was because of a mysterious Xlib error. On IRC, Liam pointed me to an upstream report that incrimates Xlib. The crash appearing in the latest 1.1.2 libX11 release.
So, I had to run a bisection on about 24 commits. I did that by rebuilding a snaphost of each revision and the rpm package.
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