The following reply was made to PR pkg/32281; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/32281: gnumeric cant read excel spreadsheets since libgsf update 
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:38:29 -0600

 Thomas Klausner writes:
 > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:25:02PM +0000, Greg Oster wrote:
 > >  Have you tried creating a new spreadsheet, and saving it?  You get a 
 > >  zero-length file.
 > >  
 > >  How about opening an existing spreadsheet and saving that?  Oh... you 
 > >  get a zero-length file there too... and you can't save that 
 > >  spreadsheet under a different name either -- cause you get a 
 > >  zero-length file!
 > >  
 > >  IMO gnumeric is *very* broken right now, and people are going to lose 
 > >  data if they don't have backups....   (I lost real data, but 
 > >  fortunately had a backup on DVD close at hand... I'd have been really 
 > >  ticked to have to go to tape to recover... :( )
 > >  
 > >  Could someone please fix this soon?  Pretty Please? :)
 > 
 > I updated the package to 1.6.1 -- the cases you describe seem
 > to work fine now, please verify.
 
 The problems I was seeing are all gone after the upgrade!
 
 Thanks for fixing this!!
 
 Later...
 
 Greg Oster