links are not completed to a note if a shorter title exists

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

To reproduce:

  1. create a new note, titled "testing new note"
  2. create a new note, titled "testing new note 2"
  3. in a new/existing note, try to create a link to the two newly-created notes, by typing their names

Expected behaviour:
Links are made to both notes

Actual behaviour:
Two links are made to the "testing new note" note. The "2" is ignored.

Versions affected:
Tomboy 1.8.0 on Ubuntu 11.10

This is not a problem on:
Ubuntu 10.10
Fedora 14 (Tomboy 1.6.1)

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

If the link was present before (e.g. if the note was created in a different version of Tomboy), it will remain. If that link is edited, however, it will be broken.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

Bug is reproducible in Ubuntu 12.04 (tomboy 1.10.1-0ubuntu1).

[Sridhar (sridhar-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 608768
Image showing the results from the steps to reproduce

Description of problem:
Connot make a link to a note if another note exists that has a shorter version of the same title.

Version-Release number of selected component:
tomboy-1.10.2-1.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
  1. create a new note, titled "testing new note"
  2. create a new note, titled "testing new note 2"
  3. in a new/existing note, try to create a link to the two newly-created notes, by typing their names

Actual results:
Two links are made to the "testing new note" note. The "2" is ignored.

Expected results:
Links are made to both notes

Problem also exists on:
Ubuntu 12.04 (Tomboy 1.10.1-0ubuntu1)
Ubuntu 11.10 (Tomboy 1.8.0)

This is not a problem on:
Fedora 14 (Tomboy 1.6.1)
Ubuntu 10.10

[Thomas (thomas-redhat-bugs)]

Thanks for reporting. I can reproduce the problem on F18.

We can track the issue here, however it has to be fixed upstream.

[k singh (triveni-2com)]

My workaround was to change the names of the links a bit so that there are no blank spaces.
eg. if there were 2 links with similar substrings
"testing link 1" and "testing link"

i would rename the first link to "testinglink1" so that it would remain unique