@Andreas W Thank you for supplying the patch! I just updated my system, and now I can once again see all of my pictures in digikam.
Anyway, for the record, I'll post the detailed reply Andreas H. sent me (and allowed me to post here). He favours inclusion of the new version, but I also think it is better to release Ubuntu 9.04 with the binary compatible patch only, so that digikam and other programs don't have to be recompiled/updated as well. Andreas H's reply to my e-mail: Identifying the changes is not difficult in most cases: Go to the changelog (http://www.exiv2.org/changelog.html), follow the link to the issue of interest and from there to the revision(s) with the fix (there is a link on the "view differences" page for a patch). The more tricky part is to decide if a patch works and has no side effects when applied to a specific target version. The following two patches seem to be in demand, from what I can tell (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190045#c2): http://dev.exiv2.org/repositories/diff/exiv2?format=diff&rev=1743 (fixes bug http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/show/615) and http://dev.exiv2.org/repositories/diff/exiv2?format=diff&rev=1752 Having said this, 0.18.1 was intended to be binary compatible release but unfortunately it turned out only "almost binary compatible" with 0.18; "almost" due to an oversight: http://dev.exiv2.org/boards/3/topics/show/133 The new organize tool is an additional application in a new directory of the distribution, which is not even built if you don't perform extra steps. It can just be ignored. In my opinion it is better to use 0.18.1 than attempting to patch 0.18. But of course it is up to each distro to decide what is best for them. They all have their own priorities and constraints. ** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #190045 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190045 -- exiv2 version 0.18 crashes / also crashes digikam / fixed in 0.18.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/358576 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
