Bug 646676 - Note data loss with Tomboy sync, for notes created in Gnote
Summary: Note data loss with Tomboy sync, for notes created in Gnote
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tomboy
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: All
low
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 646666
Blocks: 646674
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-10-25 21:44 UTC by Ray Strode [halfline]
Modified: 2010-12-03 12:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 646666
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-12-03 12:07:34 UTC
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Description Ray Strode [halfline] 2010-10-25 21:44:35 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #646666 +++

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 22:08:03 UTC
tomboy-1.0.0-3.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomboy-1.0.0-3.fc12

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-10-27 22:51:07 UTC
tomboy-1.0.0-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 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-1.0.0-3.fc12

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 09:19:12 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-12-03 12:07:34 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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