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+<!--
+Title: start with the checklist id or the issue, as the commits do:
+`LR-IMP-FORMATS: folder import finds Sony SR2 and SRF files`, or `Issue #123: …` when there is no checklist row.
+
+One change per pull request. Unrelated fixes and clean-ups (clippy, formatting, a second feature) go in their own:
+small ones land fast, bundles get sent back to be split. The rules are in AGENTS.md.
+
+Delete the sections and lines that don't apply, and these comments. A translation or a one-line fix needs only the
+first three sections.
+-->
+
+Fixes #
+
+<!-- `Part of #123` when this does only part of the issue. Built on another open pull request? Say so here
+(`Stacked on #123`) and name the commits that are this one's own. -->
+
+## Problem
+
+<!-- What is wrong or missing, as a person using the app meets it. For a bug: the cause. -->
+
+## Change
+
+<!-- What you changed and where. -->
+
+**Not in this PR:** <!-- what you left out on purpose, and known limits -->
+
+## How it was checked
+
+- [ ] `cargo xtask ci` passes on this branch, rebased on current `main`
+- [ ] A test that fails without this change (for a crash fix: a regression test that panicked before it)
+- [ ] User-visible change: ran the app and looked at the result
+
+<!-- Numbers, when it changes rendering, decoding or speed: before and after, on more than one photo or camera
+(ΔE against the reference, `cargo xtask bench`, `/usr/bin/time`, memory). Name the files or corpus entries used. -->
+
+## Screenshots
+
+<!-- For a visible change: before and after, labelled. Never a screenshot of an Adobe app. -->
+
+## Merging
+
+<!-- Pull requests land in batches, merged together. This is what the person merging can't see in the diff. -->
+
+- **Overlap:** <!-- open pull requests that fix the same issue or change the same functions, by number, and how
+  this one differs. Search the open pull requests for the issue number and checklist id first. "none found" is fine. -->
+- **Existing edits and libraries:** <!-- does any photo already edited render differently, or any saved setting,
+  preset, sort order or default change? Then it goes behind a new process version (docs/process-versions.md) or is a
+  setting that is off by default, with a line in docs/whats-new.md. "unchanged" is fine. -->
+- **Shared numbers taken:** <!-- catalog format `VERSION` (crates/catalog/src/journal.rs), `RENDER_CACHE_VERSION`,
+  `LOOK_VERSION`, process version: the number this takes. If another pull request lands with it first, take one
+  past main's when you rebase. -->
+- **Where it came from:** <!-- for a decoder, camera or lens data, or fitted constants: the public spec, your own
+  measurements, or observed output, and the files measured. Never GPL / LGPL code (dcraw, LibRaw, rawspeed, darktable,
+  RawTherapee, lensfun …), text derived from it, or Adobe profiles. -->
+- **New dependencies, `unsafe`, build scripts, network access, spawned processes, deleted files, CI or `xtask` gate
+  changes:** <!-- each with its reason, or "none". Dependencies are pure Rust and use `workspace = true`; actions are
+  pinned by SHA; downloads are checked against a sha256; nothing leaves the machine unless the person asked. -->
+
+## Checklist
+
+- [ ] No new panic path in non-test code: no `unwrap` / `expect` / `panic!`, no indexing or unchecked arithmetic on a
+      number from a file, a person or an agent (`get`, `checked_mul`, NaN and char boundaries handled)
+- [ ] New text on screen goes through `tr()` and has its key in `crates/ui-egui/locales/*.json`; a new shortcut is
+      free in `docs/library-shortcuts.md`
+- [ ] The feature's rows in `docs/parity-checklist.md` and its entry in `docs/gaps.md` are updated, honestly (🟡 when
+      it is partial), in the same commit
+- [ ] New code has a caller: no command, module or setting that nothing reaches yet
+- [ ] Every new image, icon or other asset has its entry in `assets/ATTRIBUTION.md`; no font or media files added
+- [ ] Ready to merge (otherwise open it as a draft)