On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 15:51, km22 <k...@gmx.com> wrote: > > P.S. I believe this is the bug in 3.4: > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797046 > > It is too bad there isn't a way for Debian's stable release to get bug > fixes so that the stable version in the repo remains the most reliable > version. Seems the current model means that users are stuck with > whichever version is baked into the stable repo - warts and all.
If Gnucash did bugfix releases which were purely bug fixes and did not change features then those could be incorporated into the Debian release. So for example after 3.8 if there were 3.8.1 which just fixed bugs then that would be ok. The rule is that users must be able to upgrade to the latest version in the repo without risk of finding that the the software has changed under their feet. However, to do bugfix releases is a lot of work for the developers as they then have to maintain two versions of the code and they have more important things to do. Colin > > > On 2/3/2020 11:29 pm, km22 wrote: > > Hi Andrea, > > > > Thanks for the message. Do you know whether there is a simple command > > line operation I can run to install Gnucash 3.8 from Debian 10 testing > > repo? > > > > I tried to google the solution but what I found seemed to suggest a > > lot of modifications to the sources file or introducing a pinning > > concept. I only want to install this one package (and the necessary > > dependencies) from testing, ideally without messing with the /etc/ files. > > > > Thanks, > > Ken > > > > > > > > On 2/3/2020 2:08 am, Andrea Borgia wrote: > >> Il 01/03/20 16:39, km22 ha scritto: > >> > >>> I recently moved from Windows 7 (due to end of life) to Debian 10. I > >>> have gnucash 3.4 installed from the standard repo. However I think > >>> this > >>> version contains a bug as I cannot see any of the historical FX > >>> prices I > >>> stored in the Price Database. I think I need to move to a more recent > >>> version. I saw this wiki article: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian > >>> but no clues there on how to install the latest version 3.8. Can anyone > >>> here advise? > >> > >> Hi, Ken. > >> > >> If you're comfortable with using the "testing" distribution, then GC > >> 3.8 is already included, I am using it now. > >> > >> If you prefer to continue using the "stable" distribution of Debian, > >> then you could try the "flatpak" version of GC, available here: > >> https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnucash.GnuCash > >> > >> How to use Flatpak on Debian: > >> https://flatpak.org/setup/Debian/ > >> > >> > >> Regards, > >> Andrea. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
