Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:58:56AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:40:24AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > I just discovered the oldstable distribution. What are the implications
> > of this? For example, for years I have used cbb (checkbook balancer)
> > which I find is in the oldstable distribution but not in Sarge.
>
> >From http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt :
>
> [Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:17:41 -0500] [ftpmaster: Daniel Silverstone]
> Removed the following packages from unstable:
>
> cbb | 1:0.8.1-5.1 | source, all
> Closed bugs: 166249
>
> ------------------- Reason -------------------
> RoQA; Orphaned for over a year. OOD. wrt. upstream. Upstream
> inactive.
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Basically, this means the package was quite dead and no one was
> interested in keeping it alive, so it was removed.
>
> If the dependencies are still met in sarge, you could probably continue
> using the woody (oldstable) version with sarge.
>
> > Does this mean I should search for an alternate package? Is there a
> > good one? I found gnofin and gnucash in Sarge. I don't need double
> > entry bookkeeping and gnofin seems to lack the report generation
> > features of cbb. What's the plan?
>
> I would try to find a suitable replacement, but I'm not familiar enough
> with any accounting tools to make a recommendation.
Thanks. I was afraid this would be the answer. I have confirmed that
cbb still works with Sarge but I am surprised I did not receive a deluge
of answers recommending alternatives. I migrated to cbb several years
ago after a very unhappy experience with TurboTax (an hence Quicken).
I thought there might be many alternatives but apt-cache search
checkbook brought up only two.
An academic question: If I wrote a standalone program in C strictly for
my own use what would be its lifetime? I have heard it argued that C
(and I assume gcc) is here forever as it is the preferred language for
writing operating systems. I am a retired physicist and in my career I
wrote many standalone programs for my own use in a variety of languages,
the largest in Turbo Pascal. I could tackle Perl and tk for cbb or try
Python or some other language but if I do anything I want the result to
live and work happily on my Debian based computer with minimal need for
re-writes to accomodate upgrades.
Incidently, when I ran fetchmail and mutt I found your response but not
my original posting. I'm sure I didn't delete the original. I wonder
where it went?
Tom George
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