[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 666511] Re: Note data loss with Tomboy sync to Ubuntu One, for notes created in Gnote

[Iain Lane]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 02:53:07AM -0000, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
>I don't know what the SRU requires, but the commit contains a unit test
>case that fails before the patch, and the upstream bug contains an
>attached note that syncs with no content.

Yeah, I was referring purely to the SRU process here. Usually a test
case is required before an SRU is accepted, but that doesn't seem to
have happened here. At any rate, it'd be good to have one so that it
can be verified. (Not asking you to provide this, Sandy)

Cheers,
Iain

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Note data loss with Tomboy sync to Ubuntu One, for notes created in Gnote
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Status in Tomboy: Fix Released
Status in “tomboy” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “tomboy” source package in Lucid: Fix Committed
Status in “tomboy” source package in Maverick: Fix Committed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: tomboy

All versions of Tomboy prior to 1.4.2 are susceptible to this 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.  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://git.gnome.org/browse/tomboy/commit/?h=gnome-2-32&id=c59c716ddc6b4a2be0118d88bfd0b98103e617b0