Comment 2 for bug 1237734

the flags in the arc element are being set differently than before. In current trunk the arc looks like:

d="m 261.42856,249.50504 a 115.71429,40 0 0 0 115.71429,-40 l -115.71429,0 z"

where the three direction determining flags are set at (0, 0, 0). In Inkscape 0.48.4 these flags would have been set at (0, 1, 1)