Matt Zimmerman has said that he has already discussed a potential upgrade to 1.7.1 privately with Gauvain Pocentek and Jani Monoses and decided against it because it would require updates to libraries used by other packages (presumably libgsf 1.14.2 etc., described in http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.7/gnumeric-1.7.1.changes)
Matt Zimmerman has said that he has already discussed a potential upgrade to 1.7.1 privately with Gauvain Pocentek and Jani Monoses and decided against it because it would require updates to libraries used by other packages (presumably libgsf 1.14.2 etc., described in http:// ftp.gnome. org/pub/ GNOME/sources/ gnumeric/ 1.7/gnumeric- 1.7.1.changes)