[Digikam-devel] [Bug 220322] crash when reading nef data: Warning: Exif tag Exif.NikonPreview.JPEGInterchangeFormatLength not encoded

[Mark Purcell]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220322





--- Comment #6 from Mark Purcell <msp debian org>  2009-12-28 14:01:33 ---
On Monday 28 December 2009 23:13:30 Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> Crash is clearly reproducable with exiv2 command line utility and current
> trunk. It's a PNG file btw.
> Filed report at 
> http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/show/664
> please watch progress there.

This is terrible!

Whilst I understand the core issue with exiv2, the inability to handle this 
error condition in multiple KDE applications is very severe.

This runs contrary to the Robustness Principle.[1]

Imagine if this image was placed on a prominent web site, such as google, or 
even a series of anti FOSS sites.

Mark

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

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