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[Eliah Kagan <degeneracypressure@xxxxxxxxx>]

@iLugo
I cannot speak for Martin Pitt, nor for Canonical, but I believe I can explain why this bug is (and should be) of Medium rather than High importance.

Importance for bugs in Ubuntu is assigned according to the priority in
the Ubuntu project as a whole, and the effect of the bugs on Ubuntu
users generally. This bug affects only a minority of Ubuntu users using
GIMP, and GIMP is itself not nearly as heavily used a package as many
other packages. If you search Launchpad to see what bugs *are* marked
High, you'll see that they tend to be much broader in scope or have much
more serious and unmitigable effects. The more bugs are marked High, the
less meaningful it is for a bug to be marked High. This bug simply does
not warrant that label.

There is no parallel between GIMP in Ubuntu and Adobe Photoshop running
on Windows and Mac OS X, and that topic is irrelevant to what this bug's
importance should be. Those operating systems do not provide Photoshop
(nor hardly any applications) as a component of the system, and they
take no responsibility at all for whether or not Photoshop works.
Photoshop could break for *all* users of Mac OS X or Windows and it is
unlikely that Apple or Microsoft would be considered responsible in the
slightest. Adobe is considered to be fully responsible for whether or
not Photoshop works in any particular situation. However, if Microsoft
or Apple provided support for Photoshop and it stopped working for a
minority of users, and the OS vendor provided information about how to
easily work around the problem, it seems unlikely that anyone would
criticize the OS vendor for failing to prioritize fixing the problem.
Actually, it seems unlikely that anyone would expect the OS vendor to
make any effort at all to fix a problem with an easy workaround that
affected so few users. (Fortunately, the standard to which Ubuntu's user
community holds Canonical and the Ubuntu project is much higher than the
standard to which most desktop OS vendors' customers hold them.)

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Title:
  gimp-2.6 crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke() (with oxygen GTK
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