> On Aug 3, 2017, at 8:37 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.truss...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:24 PM, John Griessen <j...@industromatic.com> > wrote: > >> I have not been able to upgrade gnucash for a while now. >> >> Will there be a usable gnucash in the next debian release? >> If not, why not? >> >> I still use this version on debian stretch/testing/frozen, soon to be the >> new released debian stable: >> > > For now I presume you might switch to using the version at getdeb.net > though I don't know your particular requirements. Another option, of > course, is to build it yourself. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian > though it looks like a lot on that page is kindof stale, and it doesn't > link you to the pages describing how to build from git or a tarball -- see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building > > HOWEVER I have been seeing warnings from Debian for several weeks now about > GnuCash's impending removal from Testing. > > In past years this has been because of a packaging issue, which always > seems to get resolved by the maintainer before the deadline and things go > on normally. > > This time it was apparently more fundamental -- the warnings were because > GnuCash depends upon webkitgtk: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866671 > > "webkitgtk: Unmaintained, not suitable for buster" > > Again I presumed this is a fairly straightforward issue, but on July 31st I > saw this email: > > > Debian testing watch <nore...@release.debian.org> >> to gnucash >> FYI: The status of the gnucash source package >> in Debian's testing distribution has changed. >> Previous version: 1:2.6.17-1 >> Current version: (not in testing) >> Hint: <https://release.debian.org/britney/hints/auto-removals> >> Bug #790204: gnucash: depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 which is deprecated >> The script that generates this mail tries to extract removal >> reasons from comments in the britney hint files. Those comments >> were not originally meant to be machine readable, so if the >> reason for removing your package seems to be nonsense, it is >> probably the reporting script that got confused. Please check the >> actual hints file before you complain about meaningless removals. > > > Here's the link to that bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790204 > > The same volunteer has maintained the Debian GnuCash package for years. I > presume he might have contacted the GnuCash developers for guidance, but I > haven't noticed any messages from him go across the gnucash-dev email list. > > I HAVE seen discussions about updating the webkit dependencies, but if > there was any particular urgency I didn't notice.
Yes, the webkit1 dependency will be replaced with webkit2 for Unix (webkit2gtk doesn't support windows) in 2.8. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.