[Shotwell] event names getting randomly mangled

[Adam Dingle]

Lucas,

you've been burned by this bug:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4201

The bug is not normally present in Shotwell 0.11, which supports 
building with versions of Vala up to 0.13.0 only, and includes this line 
in its Makefile:

MAX_VALAC_VERSION := 0.13.0

I just looked at the Debian packaging for Shotwell 0.11, found at

http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/shotwell/shotwell_0.11.6-2.debian.tar.gz

Debian has patched the Makefile to build with Vala 0.14, which 
unfortunately exposes the bug above.  We fixed the bug in Shotwell 0.12. 
  The fix was not small, but Debian will have to backport that fix to 
Shotwell 0.11 if they really want to build with Vala 0.14.

adam

On 04/07/2012 05:57 AM, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> This morning my version 0.11.6 of Shotwell (installed out of the Debian
> testing repository) started horribly mangling all the event names that I
> had ever renamed from their default (the<date>  string).
>
> Results are very different and seemingly random after each program
> launch, and can be summarized as follows:
>
> - some are now labelled 'thumb000000000000nnnn' (hex)
> - some have a single character such as a letter, a digit, '&', '(', '*'
> or 2-byte UTF-8 characters
> - some are a multiple seemingly random characters
> - some are names I had given to events, but they are associated with
> another event
> - some are completely blank
>
> This behavior occurs with two different Shotwell databases.
>
> One of the last actions I performed in Shotwell before closing it and
> reopening it was to muck around in an import folder and deleting a
> couple of files, namely<name>_modified.jpg and a
> <name>_PEF_shotwell.jpg, in an attempt to understand how exactly it is
> that Shotwell uses them. Restoring them did not stop the name mangling,
> however. I'd be surprised if that had something to do with what I'm
> seeing now.
>
> I'm not seeing anything striking in .cache/shotwell/shotwell.log : only
> an 'unable to fetch high-quality thumbnail' [CRT] entry matching the
> same PEF file I messed around with and mentioned above.
>
> How can I find out what is causing this ?
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