Excellent work Joshua, the only change I had to make to your patch (in order to add it automatically to the build in the debian/patches directory) was to change the references from src/$file to a/src/$file for lines removed and b/src/$file for lines added. Look at exiv2-0.19/debian/patches/00_hyphens_used_as_minus.diff as an example. I also named it 01_nikon_exif.diff and added it to the series file in debian/patches to automate its application.
After rebuilding (and installing) the exiv2 packages and then rebuilding kdegraphics and installing the new libkexiv2-*.deb packages I was able to fire up digikam, shot some random images of my office and downloaded the images from the SD card of my D90 - much much faster! Final proof that this patch works is redoing my previous tests with the exiv2 command on the same test image: ch...@quad:/tmp$ time exiv2 -M'set Exif.Image.Make NoName' DSC_0147.JPG real 0m0.027s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.020s ch...@quad:/tmp$ time exiv2 -M'set Exif.Image.Make NIKON CORPORATION' DSC_0147.JPG real 0m0.016s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.010s ch...@quad:/tmp$ time exiv2 -M'set Exif.Image.Make NoName' DSC_0147.JPG real 0m0.027s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.010s I make that between 155x and 229x faster than the unpatched version! ** Patch added: "Joshua's with minor change to make it suitable for debian/patches directory" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exiv2/+bug/596327/+attachment/1702949/+files/01_nikon_exif.diff -- Digikam imports images taken with Nikon Cameras extremely slow, takes a large amount of time processing exif data https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/596327 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
