GNU bug report logs - #3646
23.0.95; bookmark format upgrade is incorrect

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Karl Fogel <kfogel <at> red-bean.com>

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From: Karl Fogel <kfogel <at> red-bean.com>
To: 3646 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3646: "bookmark format upgrade is incorrect" 
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:29:24 -0400

The actual situation is much, much worse than even this.

Because the recent format upgrade (to the "third" format) did not bump
`bookmark-file-format-version', ever since at least rev 1.114 (and
possibly before) bookmark.el has been potentially writing
`bookmark-alist' in a mixture of formats: some of the bookmarks in the
alist might be in format 2, and some might be in format 1.

I'm working on a fix.  It should be possible to detect 1 and migrate it
to 2 at the individual bookmark record level.
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