On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:24 PM, John Griessen <j...@industromatic.com> wrote:
> I have not been able to upgrade gnucash for a while now. > > Will there be a usable gnucash in the next debian release? > If not, why not? > > I still use this version on debian stretch/testing/frozen, soon to be the > new released debian stable: > For now I presume you might switch to using the version at getdeb.net though I don't know your particular requirements. Another option, of course, is to build it yourself. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian though it looks like a lot on that page is kindof stale, and it doesn't link you to the pages describing how to build from git or a tarball -- see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building HOWEVER I have been seeing warnings from Debian for several weeks now about GnuCash's impending removal from Testing. In past years this has been because of a packaging issue, which always seems to get resolved by the maintainer before the deadline and things go on normally. This time it was apparently more fundamental -- the warnings were because GnuCash depends upon webkitgtk: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866671 "webkitgtk: Unmaintained, not suitable for buster" Again I presumed this is a fairly straightforward issue, but on July 31st I saw this email: Debian testing watch <nore...@release.debian.org> > to gnucash > FYI: The status of the gnucash source package > in Debian's testing distribution has changed. > Previous version: 1:2.6.17-1 > Current version: (not in testing) > Hint: <https://release.debian.org/britney/hints/auto-removals> > Bug #790204: gnucash: depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 which is deprecated > The script that generates this mail tries to extract removal > reasons from comments in the britney hint files. Those comments > were not originally meant to be machine readable, so if the > reason for removing your package seems to be nonsense, it is > probably the reporting script that got confused. Please check the > actual hints file before you complain about meaningless removals. Here's the link to that bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790204 The same volunteer has maintained the Debian GnuCash package for years. I presume he might have contacted the GnuCash developers for guidance, but I haven't noticed any messages from him go across the gnucash-dev email list. I HAVE seen discussions about updating the webkit dependencies, but if there was any particular urgency I didn't notice. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
