Subject: Bug#4101: xpostitplus loses previous postit notes

From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 10:38:51 +0200

Package: xpostitplus
Version: 2.2-1

When the new xpostitplus starts, none of the previous notes appear. What's
bad is that if one creates a new note and saves it, it silently replaces
a previous note :-(

It would be nice if the postint finded all existing .postitnotes directories
and updated their contents so that they are recognized by the new xpostitplus
(it's apparently just the ident line that must be changed), or rename these
directories to .postitnotes-old and tell that new notes should be made by
copying the contents of these ones. (The first solution would really be
nice...)

Yves.

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From: Lars Wirzenius <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 18:48:08 +0300

> and updated their contents so that they are recognized by the new xpostitplus

This is dangerous. There might be uses that use the old version still,
possibly one installed outside dpkg's domain.

Only under _very_ extreme circumstances should users' files be touched
like this. It always causes trouble.

A better solution would be to have the new program convert the notes the
first time it is run.

The best solution would be to change the program to use a different directory
name (.postitplusnotes, perhaps), and have a separate conversion program
to be run manually by the user. This way, the user can go back to using the
old version without having to lose his data.

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From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 22:06:44 +0200

Please add me as a supporter of Lar's suggestion for xpostitplus (make the
xpostit program intelligent enough to read its old format...). Then we
can assume that if I started the better version I don't want to read
notes using the older one.

Yves.