Package: shotwell Version: 0.25.1 Severity: grave The version 0.25.1 of shotwell that is packaged for Debian/testing is unsuitable for release in stretch. As Jens Georg points out on his Blog at http://jensge.org/, the odd-numbered versions are unstable development versions that should not be packaged by distributions.
According to Jens Georg, there has recently been a major change in the menu handling code, temporarily causing severe usability regressions. (I've added several bugs to Gnome's bugzilla database about that: 776527, 776298, 776590, 776592, 776593...) The version in Debian/testing is plagued by all of these problems and the overall user experience of this package has the potential to turn people off. That would be a shame. Having an eye on the Debian/stretch release and impeding freeze, there are two options: 1) either downgrade to the latest stable version (0.24.2) or 2) move along with the version from git and hope for the best. I don't know which option is more feasible. This is a question for Jens Georg: Can a user downgrade to 0.24 once he has started using 0.25.1? -richy. -- Richard B. Kreckel <http://in.terlu.de/~kreckel/>
