Bug in variations - Add/remove web part in source

Me and my team have identified some bugs in variations during the years. Last week we identified a new bug that we were surprised that we haven’t found before. Maybe it was introduced in one of the latest cumulative updates?

I was able to reproduce the bug below in a MOSS stand-alone-farm with SP2 and October CU (2009) and Swedish language pack (WSS + MOSS).

Setup: OOB (Out-of-the-box) Publishing Portal (with no workflow), created a source and two labels.

 Scenario:
1. You edit a page in source and add a web part and publish the page. You wait for the page propagation job to finish and verify that the web part has been replicated to your label pages.
2. You delete the web part from the source page and publish the page. You wait for the page propagation job to finish and verify that the job isn't able to remove the web part from the label pages.
3. You can add a new web part to the source page and publish the page. Then when the page propagation job runs it removes the web part added in step 1 above and "replace" it with the web part added in step 2 above..

 I have reported this bug to MS Support, it shouldn't take long for them to repro the issue. As always, MS Support loves you if you are able to repro the issue in an OOB site. This causes less effort for them to identify the bug. Otherwise they can require you to send over your WSPs' and in the worst case even the whole content database.

 I will update this post with the status of the bug.

Cheers,
Carl Johan Bergkvist

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