Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 42852
gnumeric is out-ofdate
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0 i686) Description of problem: The gnumeric package in Raw Hide is somewhat outdated. Any chance for an update? How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm -q gnumeric Actual Results: gnumeric-0.61-9 Expected Results: gnumeric-0.65-1 Additional info: Actually, I've been able to build an RPM for the latest version myself, but I prefer to install packages from as few sources as possible (I'm now mainly using Red Hat 7.1 + GNOME 1.4 from Raw Hide.) Also, the updated package seems to have some compatibility issues with Raw Hide packages. Notably, I had to build gnome-print as well to be able to run the application.
This applies to other packages too, e.g. "dia". The point is, GNOME develops quite raplidly these days, and I don't expect the Red Hat distribution or "Red Hat updates" to contain the most recent versions of everything, but it would be nice if you could somehow provide less thoroughly tested packages for the latest releases of GNOME and the most common apps. Raw Hide does seem to contain most of them most of the time, but I'm never quite sure what to expect.
gnumeric has been hard to follow because it relies on bonobo. We decided not to ship bonobo until it stablized. It is finally at a 1.0 release and we should get back up to date with gnumeric once we ship bonobo. We simply have to decide how cutting edge versus how stable we want our distribution to be. I think it is somewhere in the middle. Thanks for the note, we should be doing a great deal of work on the GNOME packages foe the next release.