Version: 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch5
Package: openoffice-calc
Still not fixed.
Am I the only one with this problem, or is this not
really a problem and I've broken something?
I find it disturbing that an update to stable, that breaks
a package in such a significant way as to make the
stable version unusable, takes so long to fix.
Breaking a package for 4 months is not what's supposed
to happen in stable.
Cutting and pasting formulas, particularly relative formulas,
is what working with a spreadsheet is all about.
Not being able to do this makes the program
virtually unusable. A spreadsheet where you have to
copy cell-by-cell is pretty broken to me. It's like
having a word processor that does not
line-wrap. Runs, yes. Reads existing data, yes.
Does useful work, no.
Programs that work when stable
is released should stay working. That's the point of stable.
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
stable than testing. Updates are not supposed
to break it.
I realize that this is a volunteer effort, and that
stuff happens, but I've come to expect more of Debian.
I don't know what policy says is supposed to happen
when an update wreaks a stable package.
I would expect that it's supposed to be fixed,
based on the release policy of not releasing
stable until broken packages are fixed.
If policy speaks to this and I'm wrong, I apologize
in advance. If policy does not speak to this then,
well, it should.
Thank you for all the work you do.
Regards,
Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
