Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-12 Thread JoeHill
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. *

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-12 Thread Harry Rickards
On 12 May 2009, at 07:42, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote: 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

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-12 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Harry Rickards wrote: On 12 May 2009, at 07:42, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote: 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

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-11 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:06:00PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of days ago on my system that makes Gnucash completely unusable for me.

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-30 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:06:00PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of days ago on my system that makes Gnucash completely unusable for me. I turned

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-28 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
posted mailed Freddy Freeloader wrote: I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of days ago on my system that makes Gnucash completely unusable for me. I turned in a bug report on Friday,

patch for gnucash 2.2.6-3 (was: Debian's glacial movement--a rant)

2009-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 15:24:38 -0700, Mike Castle wrote: [...] Perhaps the GC user community needs to petition the maintainer to explain the importance of this particular bug and that it would be worth while at least attempting the patch this particular fix into the current version rather

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:06:00PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of days ago on my system that makes Gnucash completely unusable for me. I turned in a bug report on Friday, checked

Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of days ago on my system that makes Gnucash completely unusable for me. I turned in a bug report on Friday, checked on it yesterday, and by today the bug

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. That's usually not a good way to start a discussion (admitted, you said it's a rant, but aI'll try to answer anyway). I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Julian Blake Kongslie
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:23 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of days ago on my system that makes Gnucash completely unusable for me. I turned in a bug

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:23:00 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: [...] I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of days ago on my system that makes Gnucash completely unusable for me. I turned in a bug report on Friday, checked on it yesterday, and by today the bug had

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. That's usually not a good way to start a discussion (admitted, you said it's a rant, but aI'll try to answer anyway). I'm experiencing a bug in

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. That's usually not a good way to start a discussion (admitted, you said it's a rant, but aI'll try to answer anyway).

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Jeff Chimene
On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of days ago on my system that makes Gnucash completely unusable for me. I turned in a bug report on

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread John W Foster
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 13:06 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. That's usually not a good way to start a discussion (admitted, you said

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,06.Apr.09, 13:32:35, Jeff Chimene wrote: For this reason, I rarely rely on Debianized versions of packages important to my personal productivity. For example, Firefox, Java, OpenOffice, Eclipse, Google Web Toolkit, Thunderbird are all installed from their respective sites. I

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread John Hasler
Freddy Freeloader wrote: As Sid is only 9 months behind Gnucash's release schedule at this point I guess the fact that all my business records for the last couple of years are in Gnucash means I'll be able to start doing my business accounting again sometime after the first of next year, at a

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Do you think the bug report was not correctly handled by the maintainer? Perhaps the GC user community needs to petition the maintainer to explain the importance of this particular bug and that it would be worth while at

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread John Hasler
John Foster writes: What I can tell you is that a rant about any package maintainers efforts is not going to improve the situation. If you do not want to take charge of the situation and do something about it, then you have no alternative except wait until things catch up. One way he could do