Bug#1036276: gthumb: gThumb deletes xattr

[olaf <olaf.wolff@gmx.net>]

Package: gthumb
Version: 3:3.12.2-3+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

gThumb removes already during the tagging of images all extended file attributes attached to the image, so called xattr.

You can check this by writing tags with "setfattr" and reading them with "getfattr". Or you can use the file manager Dolphin or the image viewer Gwenview, which lives from extended file attributes.

For security reasons, this incompatibility should be pointed out as early as possible. For example, in the package description, which describes gThumb as "advanced".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de:en_GB:en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gthumb depends on:
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas       43.0-1
ii  gthumb-data                     3:3.12.2-3
ii  libbrasero-media3-1             3.12.3-2
ii  libc6                           2.36-9
ii  libcairo2                       1.16.0-7
ii  libchamplain-0.12-0             0.12.20-1+b1
ii  libchamplain-gtk-0.12-0         0.12.20-1+b1
ii  libclutter-1.0-0                1.26.4+dfsg-4
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0            1.8.4-4+b1
ii  libcolord2                      1.4.6-2.2
ii  libexiv2-27                     0.27.6-1
ii  libgcc-s1                       12.2.0-14
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0             2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri                 23.1.0~rc2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.74.6-2
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  1.22.2-dmo1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.22.0-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                      3.24.37-2
ii  libheif1                        1.15.1-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo                 1:2.1.5-2
ii  liblcms2-2                      2.14-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                  1.50.12+ds-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0             1.50.12+ds-1
ii  libpng16-16                     1.6.39-2
ii  libraw20                        0.20.2-2+b1
ii  librsvg2-2                      2.54.5+dfsg-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                   0.20.5-3
ii  libsoup2.4-1                    2.74.3-1
ii  libstdc++6                      12.2.0-14
ii  libtiff6                        4.5.0-5
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37            2.40.1-1
ii  libwebp7                        1.2.4-0.1
ii  libx11-6                        2:1.8.4-2
ii  zlib1g                          1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

Versions of packages gthumb recommends:
ii  libgphoto2-6       2.5.30-1
ii  libgphoto2-port12  2.5.30-1

gthumb suggests no packages.

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