Package: shotwell Version: 0.22.1-1 Severity: grave The latest version of Shotwell, now already a few years old, has serious bugs (memory leaks) rendering it unusable. It crashes after startup when the user has anything but the smallest photo library, and continues to use almost 100% CPU load.
It's no longer maintained upstream, the authors at Yorba.org no longer answer email about the project, and it should be removed from Debian. See also serious bug #777499, which is almost two years old and has gone unanswered. Also see #806248. To: 777...@bugs.debian.org From: Michael Stutz <st...@dsl.org> Subject: Shotwell uses 100% CPU after setting up photo library, becomes unusable X-Mailer: MH-E 8.5; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 24.5.1 Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 13:46:39 -0400 Package: shotwell Version: 0.22.0-3 Severity: grave Dear Maintainer, Has there been any progress with bug #777499? It's over a year old, and still apparent in the latest 0.22.0-3. The program is unusable. After initially running shotwell and specifying the location of the photo library, shotwell scans the directory tree and imports all the photos, as expected ... and from then on, it quickly uses 100% CPU upon startup and becomes unusable. After exiting, it's still consuming resources and has to be stopped with "killall shotwell"[1]. I have approximately 150,000 photos and videos in my library. Here's my photo.db: $ ls -l .local/share/shotwell/data/photo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 tux tux 44263424 Mar 20 13:19 .local/share/shotwell/data/photo.db The bug was reported upstream last year, but no comments to the thread since last summer: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742670 Many similar bug reports have been filed over the past year: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719110 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748917 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732663 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747063 But it's been a whole year since the last shotwell release, so I think the more important question is whether or not this package is dead. Yorba, the nonprofit that developed the program, closed in early 2015. The mailing list is dead and the only commits in the past year seem to be mostly for foreign-language translations. There doesn't seem to be any active development happening at all. Thanks for all your help! 1. http://askubuntu.com/questions/670108/what-is-shotwell-doing-in-background-permanently
