[pkg-lxqt-devel] Bug#974616: nomacs: "charset=Ascii" appears before the comment of the image

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2021-12-26 21:00:13 +0000, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> My only interest in this bug is that it has kept nomacs out of
> bullseye; I don't need its EXIF support.

EXIF information is very useful in general, but AFAIK, only the
comment is affected. A solution would be to either fix the comment
handling or remove it. (Nowadays, ImageDescription seems to be
preferred to Comment, so that removing Comment support would not
be a big loss.)

> If this package isn't effectively orphaned, perhaps the maintainer
> can lower the bug's severity?

Note that there is a potential security issue. Perhaps not currently
(I'm not sure), but potentially in the future: it suffices that the
exiv internals change (like in the past to fix a security bug) to
make Nomacs behave erratically, possibly with memory corruption.

> (And/or forward the report upstream...)

FYI, I haven't reported the bug upstream because Debian has a very
old version. The package should be upgraded to 3.16 first.

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