Note data loss with Tomboy sync to Ubuntu One, for notes created in Gnote
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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tomboy |
Fix Released
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Critical
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tomboy (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Ken VanDine | ||
Karmic |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Maverick |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Ken VanDine |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: tomboy
All versions of Tomboy prior to 1.4.2 are susceptible to this bug:
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Due to an error in a regex in Tomboy's web sync add-in, notes created in Gnote may send blank content to Ubuntu One or other web sync servers like Snowy. This could ultimately lead to data loss, if the user expects that a clean Tomboy sync'd to U1 will get all notes with their full content.
I highly recommend that Tomboy is upgraded to 1.4.2 in Maverick, and 1.2.2 in Lucid. Both of these stable bugfix releases were made to provide a fix for this bug to distros.
If you prefer to patch the fix in, the relevant commit is here:
http://
Changed in tomboy: | |
importance: | Unknown → Critical |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) |
Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
importance: | Medium → Critical |
status: | Fix Committed → In Progress |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
To be absolutely clear, this bug impacts Tomboy 1.0 (Karmic), 1.2 (Lucid), and 1.4 (Maverick).
If Karmic and Lucid are still being maintained, I recommend those packages get the fix as well, though I only did an official upstream tarball release for 1.2.x, 1.4.x, and 1.5.x (development series).