Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless

2013-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 692011 RM: taxbird/0.16-0.2 user release.debian@packages.debian.org usertags 692011 = rm quit Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 08:46:50PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> Then aim to make the version in sid, or any later revisions, available >> through wheezy-bac

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless

2013-01-19 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 08:46:50PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 21/12/12 12:33, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > > On 2012-12-21 12:04, Toni Mueller wrote: > >>> In practice, isn't taxbird dead and therefore unlikely to change at > >>> all in the future? I think if we include it in wheezy, we

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless

2012-12-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 21/12/12 12:33, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On 2012-12-21 12:04, Toni Mueller wrote: >>> In practice, isn't taxbird dead and therefore unlikely to change at >>> all in the future? I think if we include it in wheezy, we should >>> include the newest packaged version. >> >> Yes. The author works

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless

2012-12-21 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On 2012-12-21 12:04, Toni Mueller wrote: In practice, isn't taxbird dead and therefore unlikely to change at all in the future? I think if we include it in wheezy, we should include the newest packaged version. Yes. The author works on a successor package that is based on XUL: http://stesie.gi

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless

2012-12-21 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:18:15AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > In theory, table-driven code or at least good modularity can be a way > to minimize the damage from changing facts of life on unrelated > aspects of a program's functionality. yes. In general, I would agree to this, although

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless, need the latest version for 2012 tax declaration

2012-12-21 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 09:38:42PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 08:21:41PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Do we have similar software for other jurisdictions in the archive? > > taxbird's the only one I've heard of needing updates, but that might > > just be an issue of t

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless

2012-12-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Toni Mueller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 07:49:55PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> Potentially, yes. tzdata's debdiff tends not to end up as >> >> 83 files changed, 13318 insertions(+), 16724 deletions(-) >> >> though. :-( > > ok, so what do you suggest? > > I reckon that all tax calculati

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless, need the latest version for 2012 tax declaration

2012-12-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 19.12.2012 20:38, Toni Mueller wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 08:21:41PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Do we have similar software for other jurisdictions in the archive? taxbird's the only one I've heard of needing updates, but that might just be an issue of timing. ("apt-cache search tax" m

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless, need the latest version for 2012 tax declaration

2012-12-19 Thread Toni Mueller
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 08:21:41PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Do we have similar software for other jurisdictions in the archive? > taxbird's the only one I've heard of needing updates, but that might > just be an issue of timing. ("apt-cache search tax" mostly seems to > throw up results re

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless, need the latest version for 2012 tax declaration

2012-12-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 21:13 +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 07:49:55PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Potentially, yes. tzdata's debdiff tends not to end up as > > > > 83 files changed, 13318 insertions(+), 16724 deletions(-) > > > > though. :-( > > ok, so what do you su

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless, need the latest version for 2012 tax declaration

2012-12-19 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 07:49:55PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Potentially, yes. tzdata's debdiff tends not to end up as > > 83 files changed, 13318 insertions(+), 16724 deletions(-) > > though. :-( ok, so what do you suggest? I reckon that all tax calculating software should have th

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless, need the latest version for 2012 tax declaration

2012-12-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 08:05 -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Toni Mueller wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:32:18AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > >> You can track progress at . Also if you > > > > I suggest that taxbird goes into volatile. > > Volatile doesn

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless, need the latest version for 2012 tax declaration

2012-11-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(cc-ing the bug, hoping that's ok) Hi Toni, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:32:18AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> You can track progress at . Also if you > > I suggest that taxbird goes into volatile. Volatile doesn't exist any more. It's call