Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant
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 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.
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....
I have no idea about the requirements for GC, but that doesn't prevent
me from expressing an opinion!
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 consider it an important aspect of Debian
that I can install into /usr/local and not trash the distro. That
doesn't always work (certain Perl modules come to mind).
How about installing it independently of Debian? However, from a quick
scan of the site (gnucash.org), it looks like there's only a Windows binary.
Is compiling from source a no-go? In certain cases, I've had to wait for
a Debianized version. e.g. Task Juggler went to the lastest gcc before
Debian. If GC is using a gcc version that's not in your current Debian
sources list, there may be an issue.
Oh - and flames from Debian fanbois? > dev/null
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