Bug#413983: marked as done (karm loses data when using non-default iCalendar file)
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Package: karm
Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
I use karm both at office and at home to account my time. To that effect I copy my office's ~/.kde/share/apps/karm/karm.ics to
my home's ~/work/karm_office.ics and then launch `/usr/bin/karm ~/work/karm_office.ics`. Sometimes it will work OK and
sometimes it will overwrite ~/work/karm_office.ics with local ~/.kde/share/apps/karm/karm.ics thus losing data. It's even
worse if I try something like `/usr/bin/karm fish:user@office/.kde/share/apps/karm/karm.ics` (I don't remember if that's
exactly the fish sintax, but you take the idea) since it will overwrite my office's file without question and without chance to
recovery. Just as an example, today I lost one week's worth of data due to this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages karm depends on:
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libattr1 2.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudio2 1.8-3 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgamin0 [libfam0] 0.1.8-1 Client library for the gamin file
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkcal2b 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdepim1a 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE PIM library
ii libktnef1 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 Library for handling KTNEF email a
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-5 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxss1 1:1.1.0-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
karm recommends no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
After some research, it turned out that it was not karm the one rewriting the
file but a maintenance script on a file server. I tried out all the
scenarios that previously got to lose data and everything seems OK.
Sorry for the inconveniencies and thanks for the good work.
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