Comment 1 for bug 1006242

16 months later and this issue is still there and not even a reply. Is anyone reading these bug reports at all? Shoulkd I report the bug somewhere else?

This issue may not be important for many, as there aren't many 3rd party developers of Gnumeric plugins right now, but it's important for me. Not being able to build a Gnumeric plugins out of tree using the stock Ubuntu packages of Gnumeric means that packaging external Gnumeric plugins here on Launchpad is a major pita. This should be fixed. At least if the Gnumeric developers are interested in 3rd party plugin development.

Come on, this should be worth at least a canned reply of the kind "libspreadsheet is still not mature enough and probably it will never be, so you're on your own". Noone?