Re: [Gimp-developer] cairo 1.12.10-1 not working with GIMP 2.8 or 2.9

[scl <scl gplus gmail com>]

On 22.01.13 at 02:28 AM phani wrote:
> after cairo got upgraded to 1.12.10-1 on my (archlinux) system, i found
> that zooming images to any size larger than their original/automatic
> display size broke them up into unconnected, rectangular tiles. this
> happened with the stable version (2.8.2) as well as 2.9 (GIT master).
>
> for a while i couldn't figure out what went wrong, until one user on the
> archlinux users list suggested downgrading cairo; 1.12.10-1 -> 1.12.8-2
> solved the problem.
>
> i thought you might want to know...


Thank you, phani, you thought right.
Is this probably the same as 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674928?

Kind regards,

Sven