Public bug reported:
1. RELEASE (XUBUNTU)
# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 21.04
Release: 21.04
2. PACKAGE
# apt-cache policy mousepad
mousepad:
Installed: 0.5.3-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.5.3-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.5.3-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3./4. DESCRIPTION
When opening a file with mousepad 0.5.3 in xubuntu 21.04 after doing changes to
the file and hitting Ctrl+S to save the changes, a warning pops up with the
following warning:
"Externally modified
The document has been externally modified. Do you want to continue saving?
If you save the document, all of the external changes will be lost"
Opening instead the file directly (i.e. not via soft link), mousepad
will not issue the warning.
How to reproduce:
1. echo test > bla.txt
2. mousepad bla.txt
3. Do some changes and hit Ctrl+S -> this will save w/o dialog.
4. Quit mousepad with Ctrl+q
5. ln -s bla.txt blaln.txt
6. mousepad blaln.txt
7. Do some changes and hit Ctrl+S -> this will cause the dialog to open.
This behavious has changed from
groovy 20.10 with mousepad 0.4.2-1 to
hirsute 21.04 with mousepad 0.5.3-0ubuntu1.
An upgrade was made from groovy -> hirsute but this should also occur when
running from live cd.
I also tried the newer and older binaries of mousepad from
https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/mousepad 0.5.4-0ubuntu1
https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/mousepad 0.4.2-1
(just did a "dpkg -x *.deb ." and started the mousepad binary).
Impish's mousepad showed the same error.
Groovy's mousepad was working as before/expected.
I went quickly through the release notes of mousepad but could not find or see
something related
https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/-/tags
** Affects: mousepad (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
mousepad editor warns "the document has been externally modified" when
modifying a soft linked text file
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