On Debian channels, I was told to keep you informed of this bug. Hence, I'm filing it here. Can you please elaborate why is this being done. Indexing is an expensive process. Discarding the data doesn't make much sense here.


https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806411

Package: tracker
Version: 1.6.1-1
Severity: important

Tracker seems to be very deficient in certain basic functionality.

It spends a huge amount of time in indexing the data, and then when a
user makes a minor change, it discards all data and starts the indexing
process all over, again.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Index data with tracker
2) Make a note with `tracker status`
3) Make a change in GUI like, add a new glob patter to excluded in
results, like say '*.xmp'
4) Tracker prompts saying that it needs to re-index.
5) Say yes, and all is lost.
6) Say no, and you have irrelevant data


For something as basic as this, discarding all data is wrong.