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FS#67535 - [notion] once again, all /etc/ files overwritten ... 1:4.0.1-2

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Mathias (ballerburg9005) - Sunday, 09 August 2020, 12:17 GMT
Last edited by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Tuesday, 11 August 2020, 22:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

People, please be careful.

It takes like 1-2 hours to configure notion, because it is so extensive.

I make backups of /etc/, but I never need them. So after years they might not even work anymore.

This is literally the only package I have come across in decades, that has a habit of totally destroying your configuration files every once in a while.

How is this possible? Aren't all files in /etc/ preserved by default?

All files were overwritten, but switch_bindings.lua and cfg_tiling.lua, for which there is a .pacnew file.

Notion 1:4.0.1-2
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Closed by  Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Tuesday, 11 August 2020, 22:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 09 August 2020, 14:56 GMT
What files, specifically, were overwritten?

Edit: and what version were you updating from?
Comment by Mathias (ballerburg9005) - Sunday, 09 August 2020, 18:30 GMT
Check out the dates in the attached notion.txt. I think all Mar 27 have not been overwritten, the others have.

Its not just cfg_bindings.lua (was overwritten) I had to change. I think cfg_tiling.lua (was preserved) is also very important and I also had to edit a couple of other files, that I don't even remember half a year later.


No file in /etc/ should ever be overwritten.
Comment by Mathias (ballerburg9005) - Sunday, 09 August 2020, 18:32 GMT
1:4.0.0-1 -> 1:4.0.1-2
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 10 August 2020, 03:37 GMT
Alright, so cfg_bindings.lua isn't in the backup array, so that's a packaging oversight. Anything else?
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 10 August 2020, 03:39 GMT
And any reason I shouldn't disable this account as a duplicate?

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