[Shotwell] Mistaken Duplicates?

[David Velazquez]

Oops, I meant to include this link as well at the end of the first
paragraph. Sorry. http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/gexiv2

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:54 PM, David Velazquez <
david.velazquez08 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shotwell .8.1 will not be backported for Lucid due to (I think) issues with
> the minimum and maximum versions of Vala it can use. You can, however, build
> Shotwell from source. While this is more difficult than using the PPA it's
> really not nearly as difficult as it sounds. You can view the dependencies
> for it here: http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/, download the stable
> source for it here:
> http://yorba.org/download/shotwell/0.8/shotwell-0.8.1.tar.bz2 , and view a
> little more information here on exiv and gexiv2, both of which are
> required.
>
> If you want to live on the bleeding edge of things you can use a guide
> contributed from one of Shotwells users, Bengt Thuree, located here:
> http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/HowToBuildInDebianFromSource
>
> <http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/HowToBuildInDebianFromSource>
>
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com>wrote:
>
>> that's what I thought I had:
>>
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
>>
>> ah I see my error now: I'm not on maverick on this machine, I'm on lucid:
>>
>> $ sudo aptitude show shotwell
>> Package: shotwell
>> New: yes
>> State: installed
>> Automatically installed: no
>> Version: 0.7.2-1~lucid1
>> Priority: optional
>> Section: gnome
>> Maintainer: Jim Nelson <jim at yorba.org>
>>
>> hey .... that's YOU! :)  Ok, I guess I'm awaiting a backport then :)  or
>> awaiting 11.04, which ever comes first.  thanks for the tip.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Jim Nelson <jim at yorba.org> wrote:
>>
>> > There was a lot of work between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0 dealing with fixing
>> > duplicate detection.  I can't speak for an 0.8.1 deb, but the Yorba PPA
>> has
>> > the latest and greatest for Maverick:
>> >
>> > https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa
>> >
>> > -- Jim
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <
>> garym at teledyn.com>wrote:
>> >
>> >> sure thing:
>> >>
>> >> http://img839.imageshack.us/i/shotwelldups.jpg/
>> >>
>> >> The version I have was downloaded just this morning from the website,
>> but
>> >> it is only 0.7.2; is there a .deb for 0.8.x anywhere? (if possible I'd
>> >> rather stay with the ppa etc as it saves having to restructure things
>> >> further down the road when the distro catches up)
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Jim Nelson <jim at yorba.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hi Gary,
>> >>>
>> >>> The screenshot didn't come through the mailing list.  Can you post a
>> link
>> >>> to it perhaps?
>> >>>
>> >>> Also, what version of Shotwell are you running?  We had some bugs in
>> the
>> >>> duplicate detection that were fixed in 0.8.0.  (The current version is
>> >>> 0.8.1.)
>> >>>
>> >>> -- Jim
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <
>> >>> garym at teledyn.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> I have only just installed shotwell from the website into Ubuntu
>> 10.04
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The attached screenshot pretty much captures it: the test for
>> duplicate
>> >>>> photos appears to be far too naive as we can see the dialog rejecting
>> >>>> images
>> >>>> as duplicates where in the sidebar the images are clearly unique
>> >>>>
>> >>>> or am I merely misunderstanding the meaning of 'duplicate'?  the
>> dialog
>> >>>> also
>> >>>> might want to say what files it believes are the originals.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
>> >>>> *Have Blog, Will Travel: blog.teledyn.com*
>> >>>> *A Serviceable Substitute: post.teledyn.com*
>> >>>>
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>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> *Have Blog, Will Travel: blog.teledyn.com*
>> >> *A Serviceable Substitute: post.teledyn.com*
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
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>> *A Serviceable Substitute: post.teledyn.com*
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