| Summary: | Locking broken | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Component: | revelation | Assignee: | Jef Spaleta <jspaleta> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | jspaleta |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2013-02-13 15:22:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Tim Waugh
2011-10-30 17:41:40 UTC
yes indeed. This is actually part of the revelation design. The gnome 2.x era panel applet was effectively a second instance of revelation which unlocked the database. Revelation was designed to allow multiple instances to interact with the same client database. the gnome 2.x panel applet would not work at all with multiple instance unlocking disallowed. Unfortunately, Revelation is effectively a dead upstream and there's no current work going on upstream to enhance the codebase. So while the dataloss issue is real, there's effectively no way to fix it without a redesign of how revelation works. And that's not something I'm prepared to do as part of downstream application. Is GNOME's seahorse in the GNOME 3 era taking over the functional role of password wallet? -jef I don't know, but I certainly hope there will be some mechanism for migrating passwords to whatever is "meant" to be used. I hear you. I'm willing to put the downstream effort into a migration utility if and when seahorse becomes generally usable beyond ssh and gpg keys. But the reality right now..and for the last 2 or so years..is that revelation is effectively dead as a codebase. It works well enough for some day to day use. And I still use it. But there's no active upstream. I've even reached out to some peer distribution developers about interest in trying to restart a collaborative upstream fork to start cleaning it up. No response. -jef This message is a reminder that Fedora 16 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 16. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '16'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 16's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 16 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 16 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-02-12. Fedora 16 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |