Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: file-roller
This bug is present in Hardy but it has been around for a long time. In
file-roller, clicking the exit button at the top-right does not give you
any warning if exiting would cancel an in-progress operation. For
example, if you click exit while in the middle of extracting an archive,
then it silently exits and leaves you with corrupt output sitting on
disk. Similarly when creating an archive. This is a problem for small
archives that the user expects to finish extracting immediately, because
the user will probably click the exit button right away, which will give
them corrupt data if the computer happens to be a little slow that time.
Ideally, clicking exit should block waiting for the current operation to
complete, potentially timing out and displaying a prompt if that's
taking too long.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
$ apt-cache policy file-roller
file-roller:
Installed: 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** Affects: file-roller (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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file-roller silently allows the user to exit in the middle of an operation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228337
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