Hi Joanne,
you have submitted a complaint about gnucash being uninstallable in Debian/unstable.
When running Debian/unstable or Debian/testing, users will sometimes
experience[1] that a package cannot be installed due to a missing
dependency package. This can occur when the dependency package is not
yet built from the auto-builders, or it is waiting in the NEW queue
as a new package to be accepted into Debian. In fact, the package database system indicates that the missing version of gnucash has entered in the Debian archive tonight within hours of your bug report.
Note that this is not a bug at all but rather a temporary inconvenience for people using unstable and expecting to be able to upgrade each and every packet at all times.
One of the clear indications that users will not be seeing bug reports
about such packages is the lack of inherency of harms, i.e. the "problem" will disappear without further intervention when the (build-)dependencies of the package will become available and it will be built on all platforms.
It probably is a good idea to learn about the processing of packages within the Debian archives when using unstable (or testing for that matter) to avoid annoyance by such phenomena on the side of the user and spare the maintainer the processing of invalid bug reports.
I fully expect GnuCash maintainer Thomas Bushnell to close this bug as soon as he sees it, but that is his prerogative as maintainer.
Kind regards
Thomas
(The text is based on one my comment to bug #291153 and remarks by Bastian Kleineidam.)
1. http://bugs.debian.org/291153 or the present bug. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/
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