[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#753809: ginkgocadx and certain dicom files

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 09:10:48PM +0100, Sébastien Jodogne wrote:

> Orthanc will not modify the file by itself, except if the input file is
> corrupted

I hadn't been made aware of this "except" so far. This means
more testing will need to be done because eventually Orthanc
_does_ modify input files sometimes. Sigh.

I will see whether I can manage to find out more.

> which could lead to undefined behavior. Garbage in, garbage out.

Sure, but so far I'd have assumed "garbage in, SAME garbage out".

Note that I fully understand the desire to accept and store
the garbage (as [part of] the saying goes "be liberal in what
you accept"). However, it'd be helpful if there was either
documentation that Orthanc does indeed sometimes modify files
on its own or else if there was even a configuration option
for skip improworsening of DICOM files handed out. Orthanc
would be the tool of the day if it offered a REST field /
DICOM tag / whatever saying "Orthanc thinks this file is
broken because ..." and the web frontend would offer buttons
"display original", "display fixed", "fix permanently" ;-)

Yeah, I know, making suggestions is cheap... :-)

Thanks for everyone's work so far,
Karsten
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