Bug#998212: easytag: overwrites tags containing UTF8 data with random rubbish

[Norbert Preining]

Package: easytag
Version: 2.4.3-4+b1
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss

Hi

it seems easytag has not arrived in the 20th century, since today it
deleted all tags of 3 CD releases containing compilations of Japanese
singers on my disk. All information that contained UTF8 code has been
destroyed. Easytag complained about "Cannot recode blabla to latin1"
(not surprising, it is utf8) and happily destroyed the complete tags
saving rubbish information.

I suggest removing this program from Debian since this is a serious data
loss issue.

Thanks

Norbert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.14.15+futex+ntfs3+zstd+intel+ (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages easytag depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.32-4
ii  libflac8                                     1.3.3-2
ii  libgcc-s1                                    11.2.0-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.42.6+dfsg-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.70.0-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.30-3
ii  libid3-3.8.3v5                               3.8.3-16.3
ii  libid3tag0                                   0.15.1b-14
ii  libogg0                                      1.3.4-0.1
ii  libopus0                                     1.3.1-0.1
ii  libopusfile0                                 0.9+20170913-1.1
ii  libspeex1                                    1.2~rc1.2-1.1
ii  libstdc++6                                   11.2.0-10
ii  libtag1v5                                    1.12-1
ii  libvorbis0a                                  1.3.7-1
ii  libvorbisfile3                               1.3.7-1
ii  libwavpack1                                  5.4.0-1

Versions of packages easytag recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.12.0-4
pn  gvfs              <none>
ii  yelp              41.1-1

Versions of packages easytag suggests:
pn  easytag-nautilus  <none>