FFe: rapid-photo-downloader 0.9.20

[Timo Aaltonen]

From the Debian bug:
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Version 0.9.20 is released, with some important features for desktop
integration e.g. bug fix in the .desktop file, and enabling showing
launcher badge counts and progress bar on Gnome Shell extensions or
desktops like KDE that support them. The metainfo.xml file is also
drastically slimmed down as Gnome Software does not support
internationalized screenshots.

You should be able to remove the patches made to setup.py. If it fails
for any reason, please let me know.

These new packages must be added to the dependency requirements:

- gir1.2-unity-5.0
- python3-babel
- libqt5svg5

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The release notes are at
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/470185538/RELEASE_NOTES.rst

but they're quite verbose, but of note is some high-dpi screen fixes to automatically scale the gui.

I've built it for my own use, and seems to work fine.

[Damon Lynch (dlynch3)]

Thank you very much indeed for your work Timo to get the latest version of Rapid Photo Downloader packaged for Ubuntu 20.04!

Today I released 0.9.21, which contains bug fixes. Debian bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956125

Package:

https://launchpad.net/rapid/pyqt/0.9.21/+download/rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.21.tar.gz

Coincidentally, the release notes are now much less verbose:

https://launchpad.net/rapid/pyqt/0.9.21/+download/RELEASE_NOTES.rst

Please let me know if anything needs fixing in the release, and I'll do my best to fix it in time for 20.04.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Well, it's not the verbose release notes, but the fact that it doesn't list changes compared to the previous version :) The one for .21 seems to list the same things as .20?

[Damon Lynch (dlynch3)]

Is it the change log you're after? https://launchpad.net/rapid/pyqt/0.9.21/+download/CHANGES.rst

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

heh yes, that's what I missed :)

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Ok, even though it's quite late in the cycle, seeing that the package is getting the attention it needs in Ubuntu (which is important in case of regressions), I will accept the FFe and the package into focal.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Ubuntu Studio lead here. We seed this package, and I approve this exception.

[Damon Lynch (dlynch3)]

Thank you for the approval. And thank you for making libqt5svg5 an explicit dependency.

If there is still time I strongly encourage packaging version 0.9.22, because it contains several important bug fixes compared to version 0.9.20.

https://launchpad.net/rapid/pyqt/0.9.22/+download/rapid-photo-downloader-0.9.22.tar.gz

Relevant fixes include, in order of importance:

 - Fixed bug #1871649: Window corruption when application scaling enabled on
   certain desktop environments. The application now uses Qt and Gdk to query
   whether any monitor has scaling enabled. If no scaling is enabled on any
   monitor, then Rapid Photo Downloader will not enable automatic scaling.

   This is a brutal bug when it occurs! See https://forum.qt.io/topic/113496/significant-window-corruption-with-hidpi-scaling-enabled-on-x11-qt-5-12-5-14

 - Fixed bugs where camera insertion and removal was not being detected in some
   circumstances. In KDE, it was camera removal. In Gnome-like systems where
   auto mounting of cameras is disabled or not functional, it was insertion.

 - Fixed bug #1870566: Missing default locale causes startup failure.

 - More robustly handle a camera being unexpectedly removed during scanning,
   thumbnailing, and copying files.

 - Fixed bug introduced in 0.9.20 when resetting program preferences back to
   default values in the Preferences Dialog window.

 - Added an option to extract photo metadata (including thumbnails) using only
   ExifTool. Rapid Photo Downloader defaults to using Exiv2, relying on ExifTool
   only when Exiv2 does not support the file format being read. Exiv2 is
   fast, accurate, and almost always reliable, but it crashes when extracting
   metadata from a small number of files, such as DNG files produced by Leica M8
   cameras.

 - Updated Czech, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish
   translations.

 - Fixed a bug where the number of photos and videos for a camera or phone would
   not be displayed under the devices section if the preference value "Scan only
   specific folders on devices" was not enabled.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Per https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rapid-photo-downloader this should be marked as Fix Released, so I'll mark as such.

Damon, unfortunately, it's one week until Final Freeze, so unless Timo sees this and makes a new FFe, it's unlikely to happen.

I can only approve from a Flavor Lead perspective, I have no control over the release team or the archive admins that are the ones that let packages in/updated in the archive beyond beta freeze. I approve from the perspective that, since the package is in the default installation for Ubuntu Studio, that it can affect that. That said, I'd gladly approve it, but it's not completely up to me at this point.