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

[Sandy Armstrong]

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.

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Note data loss with Tomboy sync to Ubuntu One, for notes created in Gnote
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666511
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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