can't rotate JPEG images (exiftran not found)

[maxwood-forester]

Original report: BestImageViewer/geeqie#968

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

GEEQIE VERSION

$ flatpak run org.geeqie.Geeqie --version
Geeqie 1.7.2 GTK2

GTK2

OS / DISTRIBUTION

Debian 11 (bullseye)

SUMMARY

Image rotation (Edit > Orientation > Apply the orientation to image content) fails on JPEG files in Flatpak Geeqie on Debian 11 with exiftran installed.

Log says /app/lib/geeqie/geeqie-rotate: line 30: exiftran: command not found

and yet:

$ dpkg -l | grep exiftran
ii  exiftran                             2.10-4                           amd64        digital camera JPEG image transformer

$ which exiftran
/usr/bin/exiftran

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Install latest Geeqie in flatpak form via flatpak install flathub org.geeqie.Geeqie on Debian 11, and ensure the exiftran system package is installed.
2. Apply some rotation to a JPEG image using the [ or ] keys
3. Click Edit > Orientation > Apply the orientation to image content
4. Command will fail.

[Hofer-Julian]

Can you please have a look if this still happens with the newest version on flathub?