A collector's bug report for GIMP version bumps during the 2.6.x lifecycle.
2.6.2 is out, 2.6.3 will follow soon, according to the gimp-dev mailing list. Just renaming the 2.6.1 to 2.6.2 works well.
Sorry, but there is no 2.6.3 to download and gimp-2.6.2 is in the tree. So what's the point? Thank you for report anyway.
== reopen: gimp-2.6.3 out == GIMP 2.6.3 is out now, renaming media-gfx/gimp-2.6.2.ebuild accordingly and builiding worked for me on amd64. 2.6.3 is a bugfix release, more details are available on http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS-2.6 md5sum: 39c30867511b79391eb9177c86c8b79a /usr/portage/distfiles/gimp-2.6.3.tar.bz2
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