[abcde] Bug#160372: abcde should not wipe .wav files if 'clean' is not requested 160372@bugs.debian.org

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 05:46:38PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> Package: abcde
> Version: 2.0.3-1
> 
> The subject says it all... here's the patch:

The reason for the current behavior is abcde.XXXXXXXX is only intended to be a
temporary directory, and like any temporary directory, files should be
removed from it as the program finishes with them. The conflict is, you want
to use the temporary directory for your own purposes after abcde is done
with it. 

Instead, abcde should let you copy or move those files to a different
location (perhaps based on a name more useful than a discid number) before
it attempts to clean them. That way no disk space is wasted for people who
didn't need this behavior.

I plan to implement that with hooks to shell functions (like mungefilename).
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
perl -e '$a-=($_%4-2)*4/$_++while++$_<2e6;print"$a\n"'


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