Gedit autosave & backup seem to be the wrong way around?

[Argyle]

What I'm seeing:
  With autosave and backup checked:
    Autosave overwrites the original file. With this enabled, and backup checked, the backup file is updated when the user clicks save. This means that explicitly unsaved changes are written to the original (by autosave) and not to the (or a) backup (where one might expect to find unsaved changes?).

What it seems like would make more sense:
  Shouldn't autosave actually be autobackup? In other words, unsaved changes would automatically be written to a backup file every few minutes, and then only written over the original once the user clicked save.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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