Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Just an update on this. I have asked on #gnucash if the patch for this > bug can be backported to 2.2.6 upstream and they say this is a Debian > problem as it is fixed in Gnucash. They will not do anything to help. > > Here's the short conversation from #gnucash. > > * Now talking on #gnucash > * Topic for #gnucash is: Free GPL Personal and Small Business Accounting > || Please don't ask to ask, just ask and wait! || publically-logged > channel || latest stable: 2.2.9 > * Topic for #gnucash set by jsled at Wed May 6 07:46:39 2009 > <garyk> Is it possible to have the patch for bug #564928 backported to > 2.2.6? I have all my business records in gnucash and this bug crashes > gnucash every time I start it. I run Debian and who knows how long it > will take for Debian to catch up. Right now they are almost a year > behind in version numbers. > * twunder (~twun...@pool-96-234-154-75.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net) has > joined #gnucash > * warlord-afk is now known as warlord > <warlord> garyk: you need to ask that of Debian. The GnuCash releases > dont have the bug. > * warlord is now known as warlord-afk > <garyk> The Debian devs say it needs to be done upstream as they > won't/can't backport the patch. That's why I asked here. > > > This looks to be the classic answer given by my stepkids when they were > growing up and didn't want to take responsibility for anything: Who's > responsible? Not me..... Not me was responsible for everything done > wrong in our house for a couple of years. I didn't know one person could > get into that much mischief all their own. ;) > > Gnucash version 2.2.6 was released July 31, 2008. The fixed version of > Gnucash, 2.2.9 was released February 4, 2009. It's now May 11, 2009 and > counting. The patch for this critical bug was released 3 months ago and > nothing has been done. It's now 5 weeks since I was told I was being a > jerk for saying Debian was slow in moving on this as they were 3 > versions, and 9 months, behind. Well, Debian is now 3 versions and 10 > months behind, and the patch has been available for 120+ days while the > bug has been archived in Debian since the day after it was reported. > > It couldn't be that this critical bug just isn't on anyone's list of > priorities could it?
There were a couple of suggestions made a while back. Just curious, did you try any of those? One was to build a patched version of Gnucash yourself, with a patch supplied by Florian Kulzer along with detailed instrucions on how to build. Another was to contact Debian backports and ask if anyone there would build a deb for you. -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
