f-spot duplicate detection doesn't work

[Florian Hars]

If you attach the same camera a second time and select duplicate detection, it will still import every picture it has already imported before, they are just hidden from view.
(This is a variant of the third part of Bug #250899 and is serious enough to merit its own bug, especially since the program cheats the user into believing that detect duplicates does in fact work).

You should really get rid of f-spot in the main distribution until it has at least alpha quality.

$ ls -ltcrn
insgesamt 16592
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 3587736 2008-11-05 12:25 dsc00002.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 2470304 2008-11-05 12:25 dsc00004.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 2418700 2008-11-05 12:25 dsc00003.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 3587736 2008-12-31 15:52 dsc00002-1.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 2470304 2008-12-31 15:52 dsc00004-1.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 2418700 2008-12-31 15:52 dsc00003-1.jpg
$ sha1sum *
ff048fcfb68bd914ad66e93d9e68d404cf218dd9 dsc00002-1.jpg
ff048fcfb68bd914ad66e93d9e68d404cf218dd9 dsc00002.jpg
dee2a8242d1b95ae37e10612f1dc2c37b84146bc dsc00003-1.jpg
dee2a8242d1b95ae37e10612f1dc2c37b84146bc dsc00003.jpg
baee6a95073dc6ca23a71d1bccdad15197cc37b1 dsc00004-1.jpg
baee6a95073dc6ca23a71d1bccdad15197cc37b1 dsc00004.jpg

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
$ LANG=C apt-cache policy f-spot
f-spot:
  Installed: 0.5.0.3-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.5.0.3-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.0.3-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.5.0.3-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, could you send it upstream since you're getting the issue? for instructions on how to do it please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

any news about this? did you sent it upstream ? may you tell us the bug number?

[Florian Hars (hars)]

Pedro Villavicencio schrieb:
> any news about this? did you sent it upstream ? may you tell us the bug
> number?

Do you promise me to remove f-spot from the default install and relegate it
to multiverse if I do? Otherwise you should do it.

- Florian.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

I think this upstream bug seems to be the most relevant.

Florian: Moving software out of the default install affects millions of people and will do nothing to improve its quality. Please try to keep your input constructive and generally in the spirit of the Ubuntu project. Thanks!

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 112706, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I am unduplicating this, because the other bug has the same upstream bug assigned, but the request is actually another. This bug should have been fixed for some time now.

[Koen (gorgabal)]

i confirm this bug is not fixed yet. and should not be marked like. still got the same problem on karmic.