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Re: pkg/32281: gnumeric cant read excel spreadsheets since libgsf update



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

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%danbala.tuwien.ac.at@localhost>
To: Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/32281: gnumeric cant read excel spreadsheets since libgsf 
update
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:51:34 +0100

 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.
 
 Cheers,
  Thomas
 



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