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Bug 250996 - Improved description for media-libs/exiftool
Summary: Improved description for media-libs/exiftool
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial
Assignee: Hans de Graaff
URL: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/e...
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Reported: 2008-12-15 08:44 UTC by Lars Strojny
Modified: 2008-12-20 15:33 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Lars Strojny 2008-12-15 08:44:11 UTC
The current description is a bit misleading, as it indicates the tool can only handle files with EXIF information embedded. This is not true, according to http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ the tool is capable of displaying much more. I would propose the following description:

"Read and write meta information in image, audio and video files"
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-15 23:27:30 UTC
  "ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line
   application for reading, writing and editing meta information in image,
   audio and video files. ExifTool supports many different types of metadata
   including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB,
   FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras
   by Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-
   Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Ricoh, Sanyo,
   Sigma/Foveon and Sony.
Comment 2 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev Security 2008-12-20 15:33:52 UTC
I've updated both the description and the long description. Thanks!