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). >> >> >>> 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 >>> been blocked from being displayed. It could be found by searching >>> Debian's bug tracker, but only if you know the bug id number. If you >>> just search for bugs in Gnucash the bug does not appear to exist. >>> >>> The bug was closed, and blocked, because it's been fixed upstream in >>> version 2.2.9 which was released by Gnucash in February of this year. >>> >> Older bugs that have been fixed are automatically archived, so no longer >> show up >> by default. The bts allows you though, to show both archived and unarchived >> bug >> reports. If you are using the web frontend, scroll down to the bottom. >> >> >>> Great. The bug has been fixed. Why it needed to be hidden from being >>> displayed is puzzler for me, but that's the way it is. >>> >>> Now the bad news. >>> >>> Since Gnucash in both Sid and Sqeeze is now at version 2.2.6 I only have >>> to wait until Debian works through versions 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 before >>> Gnucash in Debian finally becomes usable for me again in version >>> 2.2.9. 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 >>> minimum, if I wait for Debian.... >>> >>> >> so what is your point? Do you think the bug report was not correctly handled >> by >> the maintainer? >> > Not at all. I'm saying because of how far Debian is behind in versions > of Gnucash it's going to be unusable by me at least until next year if > Debian stays at its current time lag behind Gnucash releases. As I > have all my business records stored in Gnucash this is a major problem > for me. > > This isn't aimed at any one developer. It's just a commentary on how > Debian moves forward. And, that's not always a bad thing. In most > cases it's fine as it means stable is exactly that in all meanings of > the word, but in this instance this really bites me in a bad way. > About my only choices are to spend a couple of days rebuilding and > restoring my system with a Lenny install, or moving to a distro that has > the current version of Gnucash. > > Part of this is also Gnucash's responsibility because 2.2.9 is built > against glib >= 2.6. Not many distro's are using that version of glib, > so it doesn't seem to me to make a whole lot of sense if they want the > latest versions of their software to be used. That decision practically > guarantees that their a lot of their bug fixes won't be available for > the better part of a year to most Linux users. > > You can't even compile from source because of it unless you want to > start making what are risky changes for most users. I certainly > couldn't predict what upgrading glib to version 2.6 would do to my > system. > > I've been using Debian now for almost 6 years, with a lot of that time > spent running testing or unstable on my desktop, and this is the first > time I've run across a bug that makes a package I depend on for my > business unusable for approximately a year. I find that to be a big > problem.
Who says, it will take a year. Honestly that sounds a lot like BS. A lot of libraries were freezed during the lenny release and there are a couple of library transitions (include libglib) currently ongoing. My guess is, that it will take one more week or two, until the gnome transitions have settled and after that there is a reasonable chance that you might expect a new version of gnucash. You also have to keep in mind, that for a business critical system, stable or testing is likely a better option. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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