Bug#457641: #457641: openoffice.org-calc: Paste of one formula into multiple cells fails

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,


I am sorry, but your report fell out of the radar..
At least I never saw it on the mailing list.

Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> I find it disturbing that an update to stable, that breaks

Since when does this happen *exactly*? I don't really think one of the
security updates can be at fault (see below).

Maybe an update of some other package in stable is at fault?

-7etch4 contains just a security fix which in turn just touches the
internal database components. -7etch3s stuff doesn't touch calc either.
Neither does any other of the security updates for etch (except 7etch5,
but that's just the QPro filter and not the core).

So I don't believe at all OOo is actually at fault.
Nothing *I* can fix here.

> a package in such a significant way as to make the
> stable version unusable, takes so long to fix.

If you don't see it..
And then there is the uncertainity which package is actually at fault..

> I also find it disturbing that the response to the
> original bug report is to recommend that the
> stable version be abandoned and the testing
> version be used instead.  Stable is supposed to be more

That's not true. The (automatic) response did not suggest you use
testing, it asks you to *try* with testings version (be it on an other
system or in a chroot).

> stable than testing.  Updates are not supposed
> to break it.

Right.

> I realize that this is a volunteer effort, and that
> stuff happens, but I've come to expect more of Debian.

Yes, and there's also important stuff to do for the next OOo versions
release and the whole OOo maintainance is corrently more or less a 1
person show by me...

> I don't know what policy says is supposed to happen
> when an update wreaks a stable package.

It should be fixed.

> Thank you for all the work you do.

Thanks, and sorry for not responding earlier.

Regards,

Rene