[Digikam-users] Re: metadata lost when decoding a raw file

[Remco Viëtor]

on Thursday 20 January 2011, Robert Zeller wrote: 
> Gilles,
> 
> I filed a bug (# 263726 title: "Metadata lost when decoding a raw file)
> in bugzilla.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> On 01/20/2011 06:36 AM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > I can reproduce the problem here.
> >
> > I found the problem but it's not yet fixed. It's due to my last
> > changes in RAW Import tool introduced by 1.7.0.
> >
> > Please open a file in Bugzilla about this subject, i will fix it.
...
> >>> If I set "Camera Profile" to "Embedded" then the metadata are preserved
> >>> during decoding ; also when I click on "Use Default" at the bottom of
> >>> the window, metadata are preserved.
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately every time when opening a new raw file with the editor the
> >>> "Camera Profile" setting in "Color Management" is switched automatically
> >>> to "None" again, which means that metadata get not transferred to the
> >>> produced file.
...

This bug is fixed now in SVN. Thank you, Gilles, for fixing it so quickly.

Is there any possibility of getting a new version (1.7.0?) out, so those that 
depend on distributions have a chance of getting the correction before 2.0?

regards, 

Remco