A new version of kipi-plugins has been released. The old patches won't apply without modification. Reproducible: Always
I am looking into it. Looks like they have switched to using libdcraw for raw file decoding. I think they may well have integrated libkexiv too and so both patches should be unnecessary. If that is true we may not need either patch - need to do some testing and will bump if it all works OK.
Seems to work very well. Converted a series of raw files from my Nikon D80 with no problems (would be good to see them spawn off multiple threads for that though). Hopefully this version will work well for people :)