On 03/03/12 17:34, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
Amen on understanding the scope of the bug!!
As promised, I built a smoke-test document and ran it. The bug does not appear
at all in any Windows version of OpenOffice.org that I tested. In particular,
it does not appear in OpenOffice.org 3.3.0, in the Oracle OOo-dev 3.4.0
developer release, nor in the Apache OpenOffice OOo-dev 3.4 Developer Snapshot
r1293550.
For more grounding, I confirmed that the bug also is missing from LibreOffice
3.3.2, the one I use for production, but it does appear in LibreOffice 3.5.0.
So, whatever the origin of the defect, it apparently does not exist in the
Apache OpenOffice lineage from OpenOffice.org.
On the other hand, it would be good to keep the smoketest document around, just
in case.
The file and screen captures demonstrating the presence and absence of smoke
are all attacked to the AOO Bugzilla report #118999.
The code is only used for conversions and apparently recent
versions of LO use it more aggressively but I can't find huge
differences with what we do (not that I looked too hard).
In any case I did a conversion of Dennis' file to Excel XML and
while the result is ugly (the "Serial days" information is lost and
1899 is formatted "99"), the dates are still consistent.
I am doing more tests converting stuff but for now I changed
the status to "irreproducible". As originally planned I wont
commit my patch for 3.4 but it still looks like a latent bug
waiting to strike so I will test Dennis' file with my patch for
inclusion after the release.
Thank you, Dennis!
cheers,
Pedro.
