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

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo

On 2021-11-01 13:58:06, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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.

What kind of files / tags did you process with easytag? If these files
were mp3 files with ID3 tags before version 2 than the program that
produced is buggy and not easytag

Cheers

> 
> 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>
> 
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Sebastian Ramacher
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