Bug#872186: easytag: please don't disallow multiple instances

[Adam Borowski]

Package: easytag
Version: 2.4.3-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi!
If I try to start a new instance of easytag (usually from a terminal, giving
it a directory as an argument[1]), but another easytag process is already
running, instead of opening, it finds the other process and tries to close
it (fortunately allowing abort if there's unsaved state).

Such a behaviour is reasonable for a program with a MDI interface such as
firefox, or pointless but benign on programs that handle multiple windows
correctly, such as eom -- but easytag can't do either.

As some actual code was needed for the current behaviour, could you please
drop it?



Meow!

[1]. Scanning the entire filesystem, including thousands of sound files,
many of which have something easytag insists on "correcting", is quite
obnoxious -- that's why skipping the navigation is far more convenient.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-rc4-debug-00052-gbdd287aecdf1 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages easytag depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-2+b1
ii  libc6                                        2.24-14
ii  libflac8                                     1.3.2-1
ii  libgcc1                                      1:7.1.0-13
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.53.4-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.22.18-1
ii  libid3-3.8.3v5                               3.8.3-16.2+b1
ii  libid3tag0                                   0.15.1b-12
ii  libogg0                                      1.3.2-1+b1
ii  libopus0                                     1.2~alpha2-1
ii  libopusfile0                                 0.8-1+b1
ii  libspeex1                                    1.2~rc1.2-1+b2
ii  libstdc++6                                   7.1.0-13
ii  libtag1v5                                    1.11.1+dfsg.1-0.1
ii  libvorbis0a                                  1.3.5-4
ii  libvorbisfile3                               1.3.5-4
ii  libwavpack1                                  5.1.0-2

Versions of packages easytag recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.12.0-2
pn  gvfs              <none>
pn  yelp              <none>

Versions of packages easytag suggests:
pn  easytag-nautilus  <none>

-- no debconf information