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Bug#4101: xpostitplus loses previous postit notes



Yves Arrouye:
> 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

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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Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> <http://www.iki.fi/liw/>
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