Gimp is needed for "make check" with the gimp xcf extension. It's only needed at compile time, it's not added as a binary dependency.

Will look into the others.

On 1 Nov 2013 21:32, "Krzysztof KosiƄski" <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote:
Hello

Recently I'm getting mails about Launchpad build failure reports for
the inkscape-trunk package. The log seems to suggest that it's not our
fault (some dependency problems apparently), but it looks interesting
for different reasons:

1. We have Gimp and bash-completion as a build dependency. Why on earth is that?

2. One of the unmet dependencies is libxml-parser-perl. Why do we
require this? It looks like we have just four extensions written in
Perl - perhaps we could rewrite them in Python and avoid Perl as a
hard dependency.

Regards, Krzysztof

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