[bt-devel] Serious personal commentary overwrite bug - FIXED

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 21:59 -0800, Gary Holmlund wrote:
> On 02/26/2011 07:55 PM, Gary Holmlund wrote:
> > On 02/26/2011 06:02 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 19:39 -0600, Greg Hellings wrote:
> >>> This problem sounds straightforward to fix if it truly still exists.
> >>> However, Bibletime 2.5 is woefully old. The current release is either
> >>> the 2.8 or 2.9 series, and I'm fairly sure 2.5 is no longer under
> >>> maintenance.
> >>>
> >>> Can you upgrade your version of Bibletime to something less archaic
> >>> and tell us if the bug really still exists?
> >>>
> >> <snip>
> >> That's interesting.  I'm running Squeeze which was just released! I just
> >> tried an apt-get install bibletime to pull in the latest and it told me
> >> I already had the latest :(
> >>
> >> I'll check the Bibletime web site when I have a chance and see if there
> >> is a Debian repository I can add.  Thanks - John
> > John,
> >
> > I just tested the latest code and did find a problem. It is not quite 
> > as you describe. I had the Personal commentary synced to the Bible 
> > window. I edited a comment, went back to the Bible window and 
> > incremented the verse. I was asked to save and I did save. It looks 
> > like no entry was changed. The text I just saved was not saved.
> >
> > I will look further into this.
> >
> > Gary Holmlund
> 
> John,
> 
> The Personal Commentary bug has been fixed. It is checked into the HEAD 
> branch of Bibletime.
> 
> I did find that text could be saved to the wrong reference just as you 
> said.
> 
> Gary Holmlund
<snip>
Thanks very much.  That one has burned me a couple of times.  Still much
better than my old drafting pen and paper margins! - John