Re: Gbucash (Sarge)
On (05/05/04 21:46), Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:18:38AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> | On (05/05/04 20:07), Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> | > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:10:50AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> | > | On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 03:46:48PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> | > | > Plan C) Wait until gnucash moves from unstable to testing. Who knows
> | > | > how long that could take.
> | > | >
> | > | > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=gnucash
> | > | >
> | > | > Hmm, that's almost amusing. All the 'grave' bugs against
> | > | > gnucash are repeat reports of this same linking error which is
> | > | > already fixed in unstable. That means those duplicate bug
> | > | > reports are preventing the bug from being fixed in testing.
> | > |
> | > | Actually, no, the 'sarge' tag on those bugs should make sure that
> | > | doesn't happen.
> | >
> | > Oh, ok. I didn't even look at those tags, actually, but that's good
> | > to know.
> | >
> | > | What's in fact happening is that the bug counts used by testing
> | > | haven't been updated for a couple of weeks now. I'll mail the
> | > | release manager to see if he knows what's going on.
> | >
> | > That will be appreciated.
> |
> | FWIW - Gnucash won't start on powerpc in unstable - this bug is 19 days
> | old. I haven't delved much deeper as to whether there is a hack to get
> | it started.
>
> From a superficial look at the bug report it appears to be the same
> issue everyone is complaining about for x86. Maybe its a different
> issue, though. I don't have any PPC machines, though, so I can't test
> it anyways. (want to donate one? ;-))
Would that we could ;) I do have a beige G3 that is awaiting my efforts
to get Debian installed - in the queue of projects that I may find time
to address at some time.
Meanwhile, I'm not desparate for gnucash - we're currently using a very
old version of Sage on windows for our accounts. I just thought it
would be interesting to evaluate the pros and cons of transferring to
gnucash. One major obstacle is that our accountant is wed to Sage but
who knows, we could turn them on to Debian?
I'll monitor the bug reports and await a fix.
Thanks
Clive
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