Bug#987063: gwenview: looses image metadata on jpg rotation
severity -1 serious
thanks
Meta data is data, and losing exif data is extremely bad.
I will upload a new package later today, that needs urgent fixing.
Thanks for the pointer to the PR.
Norbert
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Apr 17, 2021 12:18:29 Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>:
> Control: tag -1 + patch
> Control: severity -1 important
> Justification: loss of exif metadata. A photographer would say "grave severity"!
>
> Hi Karsten,
>
> Karsten Hilbert <karsten.hilbert@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Package: gwenview
>> Version: 4:20.12.3-1
>> Severity: normal
>> Tags: upstream
>>
>> This release started to drop metadata from JPEG files after rotating
>> them. I do believe the following upstream commit is the culprit:
>>
>> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/commit/a401e66621bcffbdc75048d9eaded1a5f5a67137
>>
>> because it "unconditionally" saves JPEGs thereby overwriting them w/o
>> carrying over metadata :(
>>
>
> Thank you very for filing this bug. I agree, this is a nasty issue that
> will compromise Debian's reputation for reliability and a reassuring
> policy of no data-loss bugs in stable releases. IMHO this bug is RC,
> but strictly speaking metadata isn't data, which is why I chose
> "important"...nevertheless, no one should be punished for viewing a
> photo in Gwenview rather than Darktable!
>
> The emergency quick fix is here:
> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/commit/7e59f65fb1f14c36fcf12683c6eacb5f658dc3fc
>
> from the PR:
> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/57
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
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