** Description changed: + * Impact + + The libheif loader is bailing out due to a missing plugin directory + which leads to image viewer as eog not being able to open pictures in + that format anymore + + * Testcase + + Install libheif1 and heif-gdk-pixbuf and try to open a .heif file in eog + + * Where problems could occur + + The package build is using the option to not split the codec in separate + plugins but the version of Lunar doesn't handle the missing plugins + directory and bails out. The code of the version in mantic has been + refactored in a way which fixes this problem. For lunar it's easier to + just create the directory. The directory is included in the libheif1 + binary but that should not create any conflict, it's a temporary + situation for lunar only and even if the soname changed dpkg allows for + several deb packages to provide the same directory. + + ---------------------------------------------- + + In previous Ubuntu versions, including 22.10, I was able to open HEIF/HEIC files by installing libheif1 and heif-gdk-pixbuf. This does not work anymore in 23.04. Running eog in a terminal displays: $ eog IMG_9996.HEIC ** (eog:44492): WARNING **: 14:29:17.537: Cannot read plugin directory. (eog:44492): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 14:29:17.537: gdk_pixbuf_animation_is_static_image: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF_ANIMATION (animation)' failed (eog:44492): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 14:29:17.538: gdk_pixbuf_animation_get_iter: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF_ANIMATION (animation)' failed (eog:44492): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 14:29:17.538: gdk_pixbuf_animation_iter_get_pixbuf: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF_ANIMATION_ITER (iter)' failed ** (eog:44492): WARNING **: 14:29:17.543: Cannot read plugin directory. (eog:44492): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 14:29:17.543: gdk_pixbuf_animation_is_static_image: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF_ANIMATION (animation)' failed (eog:44492): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 14:29:17.543: gdk_pixbuf_animation_get_iter: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF_ANIMATION (animation)' failed (eog:44492): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 14:29:17.543: gdk_pixbuf_animation_iter_get_pixbuf: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF_ANIMATION_ITER (iter)' failed eog then shows "Could not load image “IMG_9996.HEIC”. Image loading failed." - gpicview even crashes immediately: $ gpicview IMG_9996.HEIC Gtk-Message: 14:30:30.216: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" ** (gpicview:44624): WARNING **: 14:30:30.260: Cannot read plugin directory. ** (gpicview:44624): WARNING **: 14:30:30.265: Cannot read plugin directory. Segmentation fault (core dumped) - The problem concerns all HEIF/HEIC images I tested. The installed versions of the (possibly) relevant packages are: libheif1: 1.14.2-1 heif-gdk-pixbuf: 1.14.2-1 libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0: 2.42.10+dfsg-1build1 eog: 44.0-1 gpicview: 0.2.5-3build1
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