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

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 should

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 on a

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 calculating software

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 timing.

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 it

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:

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

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 http://bugs.debian.org/692011. Also if you I suggest that taxbird goes into volatile. Volatile doesn't exist any

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 this

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 suggest? I

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

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 http://bugs.debian.org/692011. Also if you I suggest that taxbird goes into volatile. Volatile doesn't exist any more. It's called