[Pkg-kde-extras] digikam 0.8.2 rc1 and bug Digikam deletes EXIFs when auto-rotating on import

[Achim Bohnet]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 05:01, Achim Bohnet wrote:

Hi Gilles,

YEAH. Gave me the tip to try without --enable-final and now EXIF infos
are preserved!

Achim
> Hi,
> at http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/tmp you'll find the sources of
> digikam 0.8.2 rc1 (and a dapper deb).  When nothing goes wrong
> I'll upload and announce the tarball Wednesday night.
> 
> My ugly problem is that when _I_ build the pkgs on kubuntu/dapper
> I still can reproduce the bug: Digikam deletes EXIFs when auto-rotating
> on import
> 
>    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126326
> 
> This was also reported for debian on ml.
> 
> Would be nice if someone could test that it at least fixed in debian.
> 
> To reproduce, build a debian pkg of 0.8.2 rc2
> (source at http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/tmp)
> 
> 	o Download the 3 example images from http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/tmp/fake-camera
> 	  into an empty dir.
> 	o start digikam and add a new camera of type 'Mounted camera' and set
> 	  the path in the lower right of the dialog to the directory with the 3 images
> 	o open the camera download dialog for the just created 'fake' camera.
>           (make sure that 'Automaticly rotate/flip using camera-provided information
>            (EXIF)' is selected in 'Advanced >>' of the download dialog
> 	o download the 3 images
> 	o check in the album view if the tooltip of the image thumbnails or EXIF tab
> 	  of the properties dialog, if the images still list EXIF data
> 
> Here the downloaded images contain no EXIF infos anymore :(
> 
> On the other hand when I run configure;make;make install in a
> svn checkout of digikam all is fine.  Gilles, upstream developer,
> can't reproduce the bug too (on Mandriva).
> 
> Testing and tips what might go wrong are very very welcome.
> 
> Achim
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> 
> [Digikam-devel] digikam 0.8.2 rc1.   Please test
> 
> Hi,
> I've created 0.8.2 rc1 tarball.  Please test it.  If no showstopper
> is found I'll upload to sf.net tonight.
> 
>         http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/tmp/digikam-0.8.2-rc1.tar.bz2
> 
> Kubuntu/Dapper user feel free to test
> 
>         http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/tmp/digikam_0.8.1+0.8.2-rc1-1_i386.deb
> 
> New NEWS entries:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0.8.2-rc1
> 
> New feature:
> 
>         o add missing Rating info in album item file tip and image
>           properties dialog
> 
> Bugs fixed:
> 
>         o fix JFIF comments section encoding extraction to respect UTF8
>           (#120241)
> 
>         o fix x-raw.desktop: removed tiff extention
> 
>         o camera download: auto-rotated images lose EXIF meta data
>           (#126326)
> 
>         o fix message about missing dcraw program
> 
>         o EXIF info lost when saving a modified image that was readonly
>           (#118501)
> 
>         o Hash marks ('#') in album names cause problems. 0.7.* regression
>           (#118501)
> 
>         o something is broken with TIFF imlib2 loader and 16 bits
>           images. Use KDE/Qt TIFF loader instead. (#125916)
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Achim
> 
> 
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