Re: ANNOUNCE: Beagle 0.2.15

[Debajyoti Bera <dbera web gmail com>]

Hi Stephan,

> > * #3286-3289 (image filters): Beagle uses F-Spot image parsers to
> > extract metadata from jpeg, png, tiff and other image files. This
> > change updates the local F-Spot files; so all the fixes that went into
> > F-Spot are available. Moreover, Iptc metadata is now extracted from
> > jpeg files.
>
> I've noticed that some of my images disappear from beagle-search when
> indexing with the new beagle version. Digging deeper I found (for the
> same jpg image):
>
> beagle-0.2.14 extracts:
> Properties:
>    Timestamp = 2006-12-23 14:36:50 +01:00
>    fixme:comment = xxxxx
>    jfif:Comment = xxxxx
>
> whereas beagle-0.2.15 extracts:
>    Timestamp = 2006-12-23 14:36:50 +01:00
>    fixme:comment = yyyyy
>    iptc:caption = yyyyy
>    iptc:keyword = zzzzz
>
> I don't care about the iptc stuff but I'm wondering why beagle extracts
> different "fixme:comment" from the same image ? And why does the "jfif:
> Comment" isn't extracted anymore at all ?
>
> The "fixme:comment = xxxxx" which was still extracted by beagle-0.2.14
> was added with "jhead -cl ..." by myself and contains the keyword(s) I
> was searching for. Now they are just gone from beagle-search... this is
> an obvious setback.

Its a bug. Could you file a bug and attach a sample image ? If its something 
you do not want to put in a public place, email it to me personally.

Thanks,
- dBera

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