[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#940831: imageindex: Video filename handling is not whitespace safe

[Michael Prokop]

Package: imageindex
Version: 1.1-4
Severity: important

imageindex doesn't properly handle whitespace characters inside filenames.
Demonstration:

| % ls -l
| total 56324
| -rw-r--r-- 1 mika mika 57674469 Sep 20 16:42 Bei Tier daheim - Tierapotheke-14557597.mp4
| % imageindex
| Extracting image info.do_connect: could not connect to socket
| connect: No such file or directory
| Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
| File not found: './Bei'
| Failed to open ./Bei.
| File not found: 'Tier'
| Failed to open Tier.
| File not found: 'daheim'
| Failed to open daheim.
| ^Z
| [1]  + 30525 suspended  imageindex
| % ps aux |grep mplayer
| mika     30527  8.0  0.2 631904 34292 pts/18   T    16:44   0:00 /usr/bin/mplayer -noautosub -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify ./Bei Tier daheim - Tierapotheke-14557597.mp4
| mika     30547  0.0  0.0  12716  1012 pts/18   S+   16:44   0:00 grep --color=auto mplayer
| ^C
| MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: demux_open

regards
-mika-