Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-12 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Harry Rickards wrote: On 12 May 2009, at 07:42, JoeHill wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Just an update on this. I have asked on #gnucash if the patch for this bug can be backported to 2.2.6 upstream and they say this is a Debian problem as it is fixed in Gnucash. They will not do anything to

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-11 Thread Harry Rickards
On 12 May 2009, at 07:42, JoeHill wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Just an update on this. I have asked on #gnucash if the patch for this bug can be backported to 2.2.6 upstream and they say this is a Debian problem as it is fixed in Gnucash. They will not do anything to help. Here's the sh

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-11 Thread JoeHill
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Just an update on this. I have asked on #gnucash if the patch for this > bug can be backported to 2.2.6 upstream and they say this is a Debian > problem as it is fixed in Gnucash. They will not do anything to help. > > Here's the short conversation from #gnucash. >

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-11 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:06:00PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: 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

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-30 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:06:00PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: 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 i

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-28 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:06:00PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > >Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > >>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 Fri

patch for gnucash 2.2.6-3 (was: Debian's glacial movement--a rant)

2009-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 15:24:38 -0700, Mike Castle wrote: [...] > Perhaps the GC user community needs to petition the maintainer to > explain the importance of this particular bug and that it would be > worth while at least attempting the patch this particular fix into the > current version rath

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread John Hasler
John Foster writes: > What I can tell you is that a rant about any package maintainers efforts > is not going to improve the situation. If you do not want to take charge > of the situation and do something about it, then you have no alternative > except wait until things catch up. One way he could

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Do you think the bug report was not correctly handled by > the maintainer? Perhaps the GC user community needs to petition the maintainer to explain the importance of this particular bug and that it would be worth while at least attempting

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread John Hasler
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > 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,

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,06.Apr.09, 13:32:35, Jeff Chimene wrote: > 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 c

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread John W Foster
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 13:06 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > >> I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always > >> a first. > >> > > > > That's usually not a good way to start a discussion (ad

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Jeff Chimene
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 Fri

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: >> Freddy Freeloader wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> >>> I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always >>> a first. >>> >> That's usually not a good way to start a discussion (admitted, you said it's >> a >> rant, but aI'll t

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. That's usually not a good way to start a discussion (admitted, you said it's a rant, but aI'll try to answer anyway). I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucas

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:23:00 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: [...] > 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

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Julian Blake Kongslie
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:23 -0700, 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

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi > I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always > a first. That's usually not a good way to start a discussion (admitted, you said it's a rant, but aI'll try to answer anyway). > I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of d

Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
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 h