Bug 646666

Summary:	Note data loss with Tomboy sync, for notes created in Gnote
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong>
Component:	tomboy	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	14	CC:	rstrode
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Fixed In Version:	tomboy-1.4.2-1.fc14	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Sandy Armstrong 2010-10-25 21:22:34 UTC

Affects Tomboy 1.0 (F12), 1.2 (F13), and 1.4 (F14).

Please see upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632535

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 (Tomboy Online). This could ultimately lead to data loss, if the user expects that a clean Tomboy sync will get all notes with their full content.

I highly recommend that Tomboy is upgraded to 1.4.2 in F14, and 1.2.2 in F13. 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://git.gnome.org/browse/tomboy/commit/?h=gnome-2-32&id=c59c716ddc6b4a2be0118d88bfd0b98103e617b0

This patch should also work for Tomboy 1.0.x (F12), but I did not do an official upstream tarball release for that old stable series.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2010-10-25 21:46:03 UTC

tomboy-1.4.2-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomboy-1.4.2-1.fc14

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-10-28 06:02:42 UTC

tomboy-1.4.2-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update tomboy'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomboy-1.4.2-1.fc14

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2011-05-17 00:58:46 UTC

tomboy-1.4.2-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.