Your message dated Sat, 13 Aug 2022 16:22:37 -0300
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: Bug#1017086: ledger: no longer reads gnucash files
(regression → undead bug #740757)
has caused the Debian Bug report #1017086,
regarding ledger: no longer reads gnucash files (regression → undead bug
#740757)
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: ledger
Version: 3.2.1-7+b2
Followup-For: Bug #740757
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Control: unarchive 740757
Control: reopen 740757
Control: found 740757 3.2.1-7+b2
Control: affects 740757 gnucash
For the past ~7 or so years I have been using my own manually compiled
version of ledger to escape bug# 740757:
===8<------------------------------
$ /usr/local/bin/ledger -v
Ledger 2.6.2, the command-line accounting tool
Copyright (c) 2003-2009, John Wiegley. All rights reserved.
This program is made available under the terms of the BSD Public License.
See LICENSE file included with the distribution for details and disclaimer.
(modules: gmp, pcre, xml)
===8<------------------------------
This old version of ledger still works on the current stable version of gnucash
(ver.4.4):
===8<------------------------------
$ /usr/local/bin/ledger --file "$datafile" --register-format '%D!!%P!!%t\n'
--begin 2020/12/31 --end 2022/01/01 --sort date --display 't>0' register
exp.\*cycl
2021/03/17!! derailleur + chain pliers!!$27.93
2021/04/04!! trigger shifters!!$24.99
===8<------------------------------
But the current version of ledger (3.2.1-7+b2) does NOT operate on
gnucash data:
===8<------------------------------
/usr/bin/ledger --file "$datafile" --register-format '%D!!%P!!%t\n' --begin
2020/12/31 --end 2022/01/01 --sort date --display 't>0' register exp.\*cycl
While parsing file "$datafile", line 2:
Error: Directive '<gnc-v2' requires an argument
While parsing file "$datafile", line 35:
Error: Directive '<book:slots>' requires an argument
While parsing file "$datafile", line 66:
Error: Directive '</book:slots>' requires an argument
…
===8<------------------------------
I don’t know if this is a regression, or if it was never actually
fixed. But the current status is that it’s broken.
(BTS issue)
This bug is a recurrance of bug# 740757. I tried to unarchive that bug
but messages to do so were sent to [email protected] and they
were ignored. It’s unclear why because control messages get no ack. So
I was forced to open this new bug report, which is the same bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990,
'testing'), (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages ledger depends on:
ii libboost-filesystem1.74.0 1.74.0-9
ii libboost-iostreams1.74.0 1.74.0-9
ii libboost-python1.74.0 [libboost-python1.74.0-py39] 1.74.0-9
ii libboost-regex1.74.0 [libboost-regex1.74.0-icu67] 1.74.0-9
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii libgmp10 2:6.2.1+dfsg-1+deb11u1
ii libicu67 67.1-7
ii libmpfr6 4.1.0-3
ii libpython3.9 3.9.2-1
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
ledger recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ledger suggests:
pn elpa-ledger <none>
pn python3-ledger <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
[email protected] writes:
> I don’t know if this is a regression, or if it was never actually
> fixed. But the current status is that it’s broken.
>
> (BTS issue)
>
> This bug is a recurrance of bug# 740757. I tried to unarchive that bug
> but messages to do so were sent to [email protected] and they
> were ignored. It’s unclear why because control messages get no ack. So
> I was forced to open this new bug report, which is the same bug.
If you read that bug report that you tried to unarchive, you will know
that upstream was waiting for a volunteer to work on this
functionality. I quote:
I suggest this bug report be closed as there is no work upstream to
implement Gnucash support.
Ledger 3 is 12 years old at this point. It is not likely that anyone is
interested in maintaining Ledger 2 in Debian, but you are welcome to try
(understanding that probably implies maintaining it upstream as well).
I don't see the point of re-opening the same bug, since it is not a
regression. I suggest you take your concerns upstream, since nothing is
going to change by re-opening old bugs in debian.
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