Bug#309157: gnome-applets: stickynotes applet loses data when drive is full

[Marc Dequènes (Duck)]

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Coin,

Robert McQueen <robot101@debian.org> writes:

> I'm sorry, but I disagree, grave is appropriate because it lost all of
> the data I entrusted to the applet. Furthermore, running out of disk
> space is not an especially infrequent situation, and is only one of the
> situations where this bug causes the applet to pointlessly clobber the
> only existing copy of your notes - writes and filesystem operations can
> fail for a variety of reasons and not checking the return value is
> simply reckless. Given the simplicity of fixing this bug, and its
> particularly irritating consequences, it's a clear candidate for fixing
> as soon as possible.

I still disagree but will leave grave if you prefer. This kind of minor
software and minor data loss cannot be compared to other consequences
considered "grave". This is irritating, i understand, but no more than
several other bugs you can find reported to applets.

As i said, i'm willing to push a fix as soon as possible, so no need to
overconsider this bug to make me move.

Thanks for the patch and quick reply.

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Marc Dequ=C3=A8nes (Duck)

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