The following reply was made to PR pkg/36465; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: OBATA Akio <obache@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
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Subject: PR/36465 CVS commit: pkgsrc/math/p5-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:15:38 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	pkgsrc
 Committed By:	obache
 Date:		Sun Jun 10 09:15:38 UTC 2007
 
 Modified Files:
 	pkgsrc/math/p5-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel: Makefile distinfo
 
 Log Message:
 Update p5-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel to 2.18.
 Patch provided by Mark E. Perkins in PR 36465.
 
 2.18 January 18 2007 - Minor
 
     ! Correct invalid user set_column() calls to prevent
       crashes after Excel patch KB918419 is applied.
       Thanks to Sharron McKenzie for debugging.
 
     ! Fixed bug when writing comments longer than 8219 bytes.
       Reported by jscaglione.
 
     ! Fixed bug when using copy() with merged formats.
       Reported by jscaglione.
 
     ! Fixed bug where $@ was clobbered during garbage collection.
       Reported by afoxson.
       http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=24218
 
     ! Removed all non-ascii characters from main docs to
       avoid problems with troff and man.
       Reported by Ken Williams.
       http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20948
 
     + Added autoloading of OLE::Storage_Lite, when available,
       to create workbooks larger than 7MB. It is no longer
       required to explicitly use ::Big.
 
     + Added handling of Unicode sheet names in formulas
       as suggested by Zhur:
       http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20059
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.13 -r1.14 pkgsrc/math/p5-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel/Makefile
 cvs rdiff -r1.6 -r1.7 pkgsrc/math/p5-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel/distinfo
 
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