OpenOffice Calc Undo Paste does not complete Undo Paste in empty cells

[Alvin Kho]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

In OpenOffice Calc, undo-ing a paste does not completely undo the pasting in cells that were originall empty.

Example: Suppose I have 6 columns whereby Columns A,B,C,D,F contain data (non-empty) and Column E is empty, and say that I want to paste data from Columns A,B,C into Columns D,E,F. Select (highlight) Columns A,B,C and then paste into Columns D,E,F. Next, when you Undo (Ctrl-Z) - you will find that Undo will undo the pasting of data from Column A to Column D, and from Column C to Column F. But, you will find that Column E still contains data from Column B - recall that Column E was empty to start with.

You can test this for yourself in this file http://chipweb1.chip.org/~kho/testing_OO_paste_undo_072210.ods - sorry I cannot find the utility to upload this test file to you on this bug report.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 22 12:44:38 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.60-generic
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1499): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1558): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1535): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (firefox:1541): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
 (thunderbird-bin:1722): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

[penalvch (penalvch)]

In Maverick, could not reproduce this issue highlighting columns A B C -> copy -> place cursor in D1 -> paste -> undo. Can you reproduce this in Maverick?

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

apt-cache policy openoffice.org-calc
openoffice.org-calc:
  Installed: 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Alvin Kho (alvin-kho)]

Could you please clarify/define "Maverick"? I still have the original
problem as described in detail in my original bug report
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/608837
Thank you.

Operating system: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic #69-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24
08:51:08 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Open Office version: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.2 Wed Jun 2
20:36:57 UTC 2010

Christopher M. Penalver wrote, On 12/31/2010 04:42 AM:
> In Maverick, could not reproduce this issue highlighting columns A B C
> -> copy -> place cursor in D1 -> paste -> undo. Can you reproduce this
> in Maverick?
>
> lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 10.10
> Release: 10.10
>
> apt-cache policy openoffice.org-calc
> openoffice.org-calc:
> Installed: 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1
> Candidate: 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1
> Version table:
> *** 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>

[penalvch (penalvch)]

In Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) unable to reproduce above via LibreOffice Calc PPA using reporter's attachment.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice-calc

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

apt-cache policy libreoffice-calc
libreoffice-calc:
  Installed: 1:3.3.0-1maverick1
  Candidate: 1:3.3.0-1maverick1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.0-1maverick1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for openoffice.org (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Alvin Kho, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. 9.10 reached EoL on April 2011.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with Ubuntu 10.10, both OOo & LO, and was unable to given the information you've provided. Please upgrade and test. If this is reproducible, feel free to reopen this bug report by clicking on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New".

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.