Bug#268623: gedit: Autosave continues to save files that are no longer open

[Gaetan de Menten]

Package: gedit
Version: 2.6.2-1
Severity: important

When the autosave feature is used, and a file is "saved as", it seems to 
continue to autosave the old filename in addition to (the expected behavior) 
to save the new filename. This can seem unimportant but it can cause (has caused) 
data loss in some circumstance. I *think* the circumstance of this dataloss was 
when I reopened the "old" filename and modified it: gedit seemingly kept 
autosaving the old version of the file (as if it was still open), thus
loosing my modifications. hmmm, this probably isn't that clear so...

Say I am editing "aaaa.tex", it gets autosaved regularily as expected.
I save "aaaa.tex" (let's call it aaaa.tex version 1) and then
"save it as" "bbbb.tex". This new file now gets autosaved 
as expected, BUT "aaaa.tex" keeps being saved too asif it was still open.
Then, I reopend "aaaa.tex" (in parallel to editing
"bbbb.tex" but this is probably irrelevant), and I modify it. The "aaaa.tex" 
file is then regulary saved but, NOT the version I see on the screen. 
It is the version 1 from above that is saved!

I hope it's clear now... (tell me if it's not, I'll try to reexplain)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gedit-common              2.6.2-1        light-weight text editor support f
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaspell15               0.50.5-3       The GNU Aspell spell-checker runti
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-4        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2                 2.6.2-1        Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libgail-common            1.4.1-1        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                 1.4.1-1        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.3-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.5-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.1-1      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0        2.6.2-2        The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0      2.6.2-1        The GNOME 2.2 print architecture U
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-3      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.1.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.4-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtksourceview1.0-0     1.0.1-2        Shared libraries for the GTK+ synt
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-1       GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-8       A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-5    compression library - runtime

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