On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 21:09:45 +0200 Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:21:47 +0200 "Francesco Poli (wintermute)" > <invernom...@paranoici.org> wrote: > > Package: geeqie > > Version: 1:2.5-6 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: patch > > X-Debbugs-Cc: invernom...@paranoici.org > > > > Hello, > > I have recently experienced a bug in the way geeqie invokes exiftran > > (in the "Losslessly rotate JPEG image" plugins). > > > > See bug [#1108680] for the details of the issue with exiftran. > > > > [#1108680]: <https://bugs.debian.org/1108680> > > > > While waiting for an actual fix in package 'exiftran', I attach > > a patch that works around bug [#1108680], dropping the '-g' option > > from the exiftran invocation. > > > > Please consider applying this patch. > > > > Thanks for your report
You're welcome! :-) > - Will the rotated image still have it's > thumbnail correct (and that also rotated) if used without the '-g' > option? I don't know, I am not displaying any thumbnail embedded in EXIF data (if any is present). How do I check? Also, you can reproduce the exiftran bug by yourself, I even provided an example JPEG image in bug [#1108680]... Please help me in investigating the issue, I am not as knowledgeable about the EXIF metadata format, as I wish to be... :-( > > To me it looks like exiftran is unmaintained both in Debian and > upstream, I was under this impression, too, that's why I thought I could file this bug report against geeqie, with a patch to work around the exiftran bug (while waiting for a proper fix in exiftran). > so the best course of action would probably be to migrate it > to exiftool from the libimage-exiftool-perl package. How? By searching the web, I found a forum [thread] that seems to state that exiftool is *not* able to losslessly rotate JPEG images, since it only edits EXIF metadata. [thread]: <https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=16163.0> I searched for other tools similar to exiftran in Debian, able to losslessly rotate a JPEG image, but I haven't found much: jpegtran (from package 'libjpeg-turbo-progs') seems to be able to losslessly rotate JPEG images, but without preserving EXIF metadata. It even suggests to use exiftran for JPEG images with EXIF data in its own jpegtran(1) man page... It seems that the only solution is that someone volunteers to adopt package 'exiftran'! Wow, yes, that was so obvious, why haven't I thought about it before?!? Maybe... you could volunteer?!? ;-) > > But then, the very best idea might really be to simply drop these > debian-specific scripts (since they don't work like they are supposed to > anyway). Well, but they are handy to quickly losslessly rotate JPEG photos from within qeeqie, without having to start another terminal and without having to always remember the correct options to be passed to exiftran (or other tool). Of course, I can write a small script with the correct options hardcoded... But, wait, those two "rotate-*.desktop" scripts are exactly that: small scripts with the correct options hardcoded and they can be even called directly from within geeqie... So, why should we drop the wheel and then re-invent the wheel?!? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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