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totem package

totem stops playing if file is moved/renamed/deleted

Bug #274163 reported by David Prieto
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Totem
Fix Released
Medium
totem (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: totem

I'm using totem 2.24 on intrepid.

Totem used to be able to keep playing a file even after you deleted, moved or renamed it. And I honestly always found it an extremely cool feature. But not anymore, now it will stop after any of these operations.

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :

Should it be able to do so? I have a bad security feeling with this "feature".

Particularly with deleting the file it's playing, does it just keep reading the area the file used to be at. What happens when a new file gets written there, while it is playing? This had big security ramifications (I think), and could be the cause of many bugs. Would you call this expected behavior?

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David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail) wrote :

Well yes, as a user I would expect this behaviour. I don't know whether or not it can lead to bugs, though, so if you guys really think it can, then I guess the change is for the better.

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :

I'm still going to upstream it and see what they say. It is a useful feature to have and let's see why they removed it.

Changed in totem:
assignee: nobody → bryanquigley
status: New → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in totem:
status: Unknown → New
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in totem:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in totem:
status: New → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in totem:
status: Invalid → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in totem:
assignee: bryanquigley → desktop-bugs
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

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totem (2.24.1-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #276853):
    - Fix typo in the browser plugin documentation
    - Disable the code to remove deleted files from the playlist, it was
      broken (LP: #274163)
    - Fix a window parenting problem when using the GStreamer missing plugins
      code
  * regenerated debian/patches/70_autotools.patch
  * refreshed debian/patches/02_lpi.patch
  * Move config.{guess,sub} handling to configure target and remove them
    into the clean one (thanks to lintian).

 -- Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:35:10 +0200

Changed in totem:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in totem:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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