Package: exiv2 Version: 0.23-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
exiv2 version 0.18.2 fixed a bug related to symlinks, but the fix introduced two more bugs. exiv2 is designed to give the illusion of modifying a file in place, but actually it creates the new file, removes the old file, and renames the new file to the old name. The old bug (already fixed): If the file was a symlink, it would become a plain file, and the file it used to point to would be truncated. First new bug: If the file is a relative symlink, exiv2 interprets it relative to the current working directory, rather than relative to the symlink, when deciding where to create the new file. Second new bug: If the file is a symlink to another symlink, exiv2 follows only the first. If the first symlink is relative, the other bug happens too, otherwise the second symlink gets replaced by a plain file. The relative-symlink bug is very dangerous, because it can cause an unrelated file to be removed. For example, given these files: foo.jpg dir/foo.jpg dir/bar.jpg --> foo.jpg The command 'exiv2 <options> dir/foo.jpg' will unlink and replace ./foo.jpg, not dir/foo.jpg. My workaround may provide a hint about how to fix this: # Assume $@ contains all desired exiv2 options except the filename, # which is in $file. file=`readlink -e "$file"` exiv2 "$@" "$file" -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages exiv2 depends on: ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libexiv2-12 0.23-1 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5 exiv2 recommends no packages. exiv2 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ pkg-kde-extras mailing list pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-extras