cannot release a graph in gnumeric after click and drag

[Lucio]

Binary package hint: gnumeric

TEST CASE:
1. Start gnumeric
2. create an empty graph
3. click and drag the graph

Result: When mouse button is released graph still follows mouse
Expected result: Graph should be released when mouse button is

Issue is seen on both intrepid and jaunty versions of gnumeric (1.8.3 and 1.8.4).

Since graphs are a vital part of gnumeric this makes the application highly crippled to all users running stock versions in intrepid and jaunty.

The bug exists in the goffice library gnumeric uses for plotting. An existing upstream patch (currently in Karmic's version) modifies foocanvas to work around a behaviour change in gtk 2.14 that caused the bug.

[Hib Eris (hiberis)]

I can reproduce this issue on both Intrepid and Jaunty.

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Martin Erik Werner (arand)]

I was seeing this as well on jaunty, upgrading to 1.9.6 though debian sid repo mitigated:

gnumeric & gnumeric-common: 1.8.4-3ubuntu2 >> 1.9.6-1
libgoffice-0-6 >> libgoffice-0-8
libgoffice-common-0-6 >> libgoffice-common-0-8

[Martin Erik Werner (arand)]

This was apparently down to a gtk issue, it was fixed with changes in the 1.8.4 release though.

I would suggest that this should be backported to jaunty, since it is a _very_ obvious and annoying problem, that affects everyone using gnumeric in ubuntu

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

As 'arand' noted in comment #2, Jaunty has gnumeric 1.8.4 already. If this was fixed in a later release, it will need a SRU submitted. Procedures to submit the SRU are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure. Please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure to bring the need to a developer's attention. Thanks for helping improve Ubuntu

[John (john-m-lang)]

According to comment #17 on the Gnome bug #566652, this has just been fixed in goffice: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/goffice/commit/?h=goffice-0-6&id=bfcd25ce71fce582af48f834c14a956249dc3ea6

I have not tested this to check if this actually fixes the bug.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

The source package for gnumeric in Ubuntu is gnumeric (ubuntu). When the bug is fixed in gnumeric, it will be fixed in the gnumeric component of goffice. It is not necessary to open a separate task for goffice, since gnumeric is a component of goffice.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Karmic Koala.

This is a significant bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

[Martin Erik Werner (arand)]

I can confirm that the patch mentioned in comment #5 (http://git.gnome.org/cgit/goffice/commit/?h=goffice-0-6&id=bfcd25ce71fce582af48f834c14a956249dc3ea6), if applied to current libgoffice-0-6 in jaunty fixes this bug. Since the patch is seemingly minor I'd guess it'd be a good idea getting it into jaunty.

[Martin Erik Werner (arand)]

Okay, here's the debdiff for above mentioned patch.

[Martin Erik Werner (arand)]

Patched version is now also available for testing through my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~arand/+archive/ppa

[John (john-m-lang)]

The patched version in arand's PPA fixes this for me. I haven't experienced any regressions so far.

Thanks!

[LaserJock (laserjock)]

OK, I've uploaded arand's patch to intrepid-proposed and jaunty-proposed with minor changelog tweaks to conform to policy a bit better.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Accepted into intrepid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Accepted into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[John (john-m-lang)]

Using the package in jaunty-proposed fixes this bug for me. I have not encountered any regressions yet. Thanks for pushing this through.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to -updates.