On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Christian Perrier wrote:
The "data loss" rationale in this bug report is fairly weak.
The offending file (which you even didn't send to the bug report) is
not destroyed nor lost.
No, the file has not lost, but since one expect that between version of he
same program there is the same behaviour, and trust that a program you use
since 8 years wont change its behaviour, I got some problems due the use
of the results from such file (say two hours of work literally lost, and
not for fixing the table!).
For Tim:
EVEN openoffice 3 for linux, .deb version, downoaded from openoffice org
has the same behaviour "C" !!!
among all version i have only 2.4.1 from lenny use option D .
(note: i do not have any excel to try, the file was in origin written from
a ooo 2.0 under windows, and until 2.4.0 inclusive I did not see the error
even in linux ... i have not been able to install oo3 from debian, so my
lnux 3.0 version in the ooo build one)
So my alarm is: why the same program on different distribution has
a different behaviour ?
Is possible this _was_ a bug in previous oo version, that has been fixed
in debian 2.4.1, but not in ooo one ?
(actually this is a thing that IS a bug from a programmer point of view,
but not from a lazy user's point of view (or by a perl programmer ;-) )
May i suggest to put a configuration option tho choose the behaviour in
this case ? it would be ok with all files.
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