Package: jpilot
Version: 0.99.8-2
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
Steps to reproduce:
1. Click "Sync your palm to the desktop and then do a backup".
2. Use the Palm as normal -- add, remove, and modify data on both the Palm
and the desktop, and sync to the desktop as needed. (In my case, this
step took about a month.)
3. Sync the Palm.
4. Reset the Palm or otherwise delete its data.
5. Choose "File->Restore Handheld". Wait while JPilot works. The Palm will
pop a dialog box asking to be reset; say OK. JPilot will ask to be synced.
6. Click "Sync your palm to the desktop".
Actual behavior:
JPilot and the Palm both contain data current as of Step 1, i.e. everything
done in Step 2 is lost.
As far as I can tell, in Step 1, JPilot creates a directory
~/.jpilot/backup-${MMDDhhmm} containing the most current data at that time.
Then, in Step 5, JPilot places onto the Palm data from that same directory
-- which is now out of date. In Step 6, JPilot copies the out-of-date data
back from the Palm into ~/.jpilot, overwriting the current data from Step 3.
Expected behavior:
Personally, I'd expect JPilot to silently place the the most current
possible data onto the Palm (obviously, Step 4 may irretrievably lose some).
Some data would come from ~/.jpilot, and some (applications) would come from
~/.jpilot/backup-${MMDDhhmm}.
However, a dialog box along the lines of "I'm about to restore your handheld
to its state as of blah blah blah, this may cause data loss, etc." would be
sufficient to prevent data loss and allow me to patch things up manually by
moving around .pdb and prc files.
I have a Palm M100, FYI.
Thanks for your work on this package,
Reid
p.s. I am unsure of the severity level. Please adjust if appropriate.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.31
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages jpilot depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.59 Debian configuration management sy
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpisock8 0.11.8-12 Library for communicating with a P
ii libreadline5 5.0-11 GNU readline and history libraries
Versions of packages jpilot recommends:
ii jpilot-plugins 0.99.8-2 plugins for jpilot (Palm Pilot des
-- debconf information:
* shared/pilot/port: ttyS1
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