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Package: shotwell
Version: 0.22.1-1
Severity: grave
The latest version of Shotwell, now already a few years old, has
serious bugs (memory leaks) rendering it unusable. It crashes after
startup when the user has anything but the smallest photo library,
and continues to use almost 100% CPU load.
It's no longer maintained upstream, the authors at Yorba.org no
longer answer email about the project, and it should be removed from
Debian.
See also serious bug #777499, which is almost two years old and has gone
unanswered. Also see #806248.
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From: Michael Stutz <st...@dsl.org>
Subject: Shotwell uses 100% CPU after setting up photo library, becomes unusable
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 13:46:39 -0400
Package: shotwell
Version: 0.22.0-3
Severity: grave
Dear Maintainer,
Has there been any progress with bug #777499? It's over a year old,
and still apparent in the latest 0.22.0-3. The program is unusable.
After initially running shotwell and specifying the location of the
photo library, shotwell scans the directory tree and imports all the
photos, as expected ... and from then on, it quickly uses 100% CPU
upon startup and becomes unusable. After exiting, it's still
consuming resources and has to be stopped with "killall shotwell"[1].
I have approximately 150,000 photos and videos in my library. Here's
my photo.db:
$ ls -l .local/share/shotwell/data/photo.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 tux tux 44263424 Mar 20 13:19 .local/share/shotwell/data/photo.db
The bug was reported upstream last year, but no comments to the
thread since last summer:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742670
Many similar bug reports have been filed over the past year:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719110
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748917
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732663
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747063
But it's been a whole year since the last shotwell release, so I
think the more important question is whether or not this package is
dead. Yorba, the nonprofit that developed the program, closed in
early 2015. The mailing list is dead and the only commits in the past
year seem to be mostly for foreign-language translations. There
doesn't seem to be any active development happening at all.
Thanks for all your help!
1.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/670108/what-is-shotwell-doing-in-background-permanently
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Hello Michael,
Am Dienstag, den 27.09.2016, 14:46 -0400 schrieb Michael Stutz:
> Package: shotwell
> Version: 0.22.1-1
> Severity: grave
>
> The latest version of Shotwell, now already a few years old, has
> serious bugs (memory leaks) rendering it unusable. It crashes after
> startup when the user has anything but the smallest photo library,
> and continues to use almost 100% CPU load.
>
The latest Version is from 18. Sept. 2016 and not years old.
> It's no longer maintained upstream, the authors at Yorba.org no
> longer answer email about the project, and it should be removed from
> Debian.
>
Never. The upstream maintainer has changed, and I get answers very
quickly. So there is no reason to remove shotwell.
> See also serious bug #777499, which is almost two years old and has
> gone
> unanswered. Also see #806248.
>
The last upstream answer for #777499 is from 2016-08-05 22:13:50 UTC
[...]
And at last: A new version of shotwell is on mentors[1] to get it into
Debian.
I close this bug now.
CU
Jörg
[1] https://mentors.debian.net/package/shotwell
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