[Shotwell] 0.8.1 update: Problem with CR2 files from a Canon EOS 550D

[Bruno Girin]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 09:23 -0800, Adam Dingle wrote:
> Bruce,
> 
> To be clear, Shotwell itself does not include libraw: it just uses 
> whichever version of libraw happens to be available on your machine.  We 
> do have plans to add libraw 0.12 to the Yorba PPA (see 
> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2583), but that's not done yet.  We might 
> do that soon, or wait for the 0.9 release - that's still undecided.  If 
> you're in a hurry, though, it shouldn't be too hard to build and install 
> libraw 0.12.2 on your Maverick box, and then Shotwell will use it.

If you want to do that, you will have to compile libraw 0.12.2 and then
re-compile Shotwell, as libraw is a static (rather than dynamic)
library. Based on my tests, it does resolve the purple stripe problem
seen on EOS 60D and 550D cameras (only tested with a 60D image though).

Bruno