Debian Bug report logs - #790204
gnucash: depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 which is deprecated

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: pochu@debian.org

To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: gnucash: depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 which is deprecated

Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:41:23 +0200

Source: gnucash
Severity: important
Tags: sid stretch
User: pkg-webkit-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 webkit1

Hi,

gnucash depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, which is deprecated in favor
of libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37. gnucash should be ported to the new
webkitgtk version so we can remove the old, unmaintained one.

As an intermediate step you can port gnucash to libwebkitgtk-3.0-0,
which has a similar API to libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 but is based on GTK+
3.0. Thus you'd be porting gnucash to GTK+ 3.0 first, using
libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, and you could then port to libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
later. But note that libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 is also deprecated.

Please try to do this before the Stretch release as we're going to
try to remove libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 this cycle.

We'll bump this to serious when the list of rdeps is small and we're
getting ready to removing libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 completely.

If you have any question don't hesitate to ask.

Emilio 

Message #18 received at 790204@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>

To: 790199@bugs.debian.org, 790204@bugs.debian.org, 790220@bugs.debian.org, 790221@bugs.debian.org, 790222@bugs.debian.org, 790219@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Raising severity to serious for packages depending on webkitgtk

Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:26:21 -0400

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 -stretch

We do not intend to release the next stable release of Debian
(codenamed "buster") with webkitgtk. Therefore, I am raising the
severity of this issue to serious. Please drop the dependency on
webkitgtk because webkitgtk will be removed from Debian soon.

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha

Message #27 received at 790204@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>

To: 790204@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: gnucash: depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 which is deprecated

Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 08:26:34 -0400

gnucash upstream is switching to gtk3 and webkit2gtk in git.

I guess they currently don't expect it to be "stable" until the end of
the year, but a beta version might be good enough for Debian testing
and Ubuntu 17.10?

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Message #32 received at 790204@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>

To: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>, 790204@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#790204: gnucash: depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 which is deprecated

Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 19:44:01 +0300

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 08:26:34AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> gnucash upstream is switching to gtk3 and webkit2gtk in git.
> 
> I guess they currently don't expect it to be "stable" until the end of
> the year, but a beta version might be good enough for Debian testing
> and Ubuntu 17.10?

Will there be an upstream beta good enough for shipping in an Ubuntu 
release in time for 17.10?

IMHO (just a normal user) shipping a random git snapshot of upstream 
master of an accounting software in an Ubuntu stable would be worse
than not shipping gnucash in 17.10

> Thanks,
> Jeremy Bicha

cu
Adrian

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Message #37 received at 790204@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Micha Lenk <micha@debian.org>

To: 790204@bugs.debian.org, gnucash@packages.debian.org

Cc: John Ralls <jralls@ceridwen.us>

Subject: Re: Bug#790204: gnucash: depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 which is deprecated

Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:45:17 +0200

Hi Dmitry (Debian package maintainer for Gnucash)

as you certainly know the Gnucash package in Debian build-depends on the
Gwenhywfar library for use by the AqBanking importer module. Current
releases of the Gwenhywfar library only supported Gtk2. Following the
upstream commits, I noticed a few days ago three commits contributed by
John Ralls, that were added to support Gtk3 too.

In an effort to support the transition from Gtk2 to Gtk3, I've just
added these patches to the libgwenhywfar package in Debian and uploaded
it to experimental as libgwenhywfar 4.18.0-2. This upload adds the new
binary packages libgwengui-gtk3-dev and libgwengui-gtk3-0. I would
appreciate if this package could get some testing, e.g. by uploading a
beta release of Gnucash to experimental.

I hope this helps us all to verify early that we didn't miss anything
during the transition from Gtk2 to Gtk3, and to find any related bugs as
early as possible.

Best regards,
Micha

Message #42 received at 790204@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>

To: 790204@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: gnucash: depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 which is deprecated

Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:27:49 -0700

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Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream patch

Hi Dmitry,

While investigating bug #876306, I noticed that there is a new upstream
devel version of gnucash just released (2.7.0), which includes porting to
gtk+3.

The github release tarballs don't include all the required output of 'make
dist' so it takes a bit of work to get it into a buildable shape, and at the
end the build still failed for me because of bug #876306 which still needs
fixing separately.  But this looks promising overall, so I thought I'd share
my debdiff with you for updating gnucash to 2.7.0.  Maybe you would consider
uploading this to experimental?

Cheers,
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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
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Message #49 received at 790204@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>

To: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org>

Cc: 790204@bugs.debian.org, Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>

Subject: Re: gnucash: depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 which is deprecated

Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 18:20:24 +0100

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:27:49 -0700 Steve Langasek 
<steve.langasek@canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi Dmitry,

Hello Dmitry,

>
> While investigating bug #876306, I noticed that there is a new upstream
> devel version of gnucash just released (2.7.0), which includes porting to
> gtk+3.
>
> The github release tarballs don't include all the required output of 
'make
> dist' so it takes a bit of work to get it into a buildable shape, and 
at the
> end the build still failed for me because of bug #876306 which still 
needs
> fixing separately. But this looks promising overall, so I thought I'd 
share
> my debdiff with you for updating gnucash to 2.7.0. Maybe you would 
consider
> uploading this to experimental?

2.7.1 has now been released.

Would it be an option to push it to experimental (or to unstable?)

Kind regards,

Laurent Bigonville


>
> Cheers,

Message #58 received at 790204@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Patrick Byrne <pjlbyrne@gmail.com>

To: 790204@bugs.debian.org

Subject: debian buster

Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 17:26:59 +0000

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Hi,

Is there an update on this please? I would like to move to debian buster,
and I need gnucash.

Thanks
Patrick

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Message #63 received at 790204@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Patrick Byrne <pjlbyrne@gmail.com>

To: 790204@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#790204: GnuCash in debian buster

Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 22:00:41 +0000

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Hi,

Thanks for your response.

I just wanted to register an interest.

I would be happy to use the 2.6 branch in buster, but I can't see it in
synaptic. Are you suggesting I could move from buster (testing) to sid
(unstable) ? Can I add the sid repositories to buster without moving to sid
completely? Apologies for my ignorance.

Thanks
Patrick

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On 27 December 2017 at 21:51, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 5:26:59 PM AEDT Patrick Byrne wrote:
> > Is there an update on this please? I would like to move to debian buster,
> > and I need gnucash.
>
> Please be patient, there were massive changes in 2.7.* and it took much
> time
> and effort to accommodate. That work is almost done and most certainly I'll
> upload version 2.7.3 once upstream releases it.
>
> However 2.7.* is still a development branch and upstream NEWS file contains
> the following warning:
>
> ~~~~
>     This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
>     See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.
>
>     This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options,
>     and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous
>     versions.
> ~~~~
>
> Therefore 2.7.3 is probably won't be immediately useful to you. In the
> meantime please stay on stable 2.6.* which is already available from
> "unstable".
>
> Best wishes,
>  Dmitry Smirnov.
>
> ---
>
>
> Truth — Something somehow discreditable to someone.
>         -- H. L. Mencken, 1949
>

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Message #68 received at 790204@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org>

To: Patrick Byrne <pjlbyrne@gmail.com>, 790204@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#790204: GnuCash in debian buster

Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 08:51:09 +1100

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On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 5:26:59 PM AEDT Patrick Byrne wrote:
> Is there an update on this please? I would like to move to debian buster,
> and I need gnucash.

Please be patient, there were massive changes in 2.7.* and it took much time 
and effort to accommodate. That work is almost done and most certainly I'll 
upload version 2.7.3 once upstream releases it.

However 2.7.* is still a development branch and upstream NEWS file contains 
the following warning:

~~~~
    This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
    See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.

    This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options,
    and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous
    versions.
~~~~

Therefore 2.7.3 is probably won't be immediately useful to you. In the 
meantime please stay on stable 2.6.* which is already available from 
"unstable".

Best wishes,
 Dmitry Smirnov.

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Message #73 received at 790204@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>

To: Patrick Byrne <pjlbyrne@gmail.com>, 790204@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#790204: GnuCash in debian buster

Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:25:51 +0100

On 2017-12-27 22:00:41 +0000, Patrick Byrne wrote:
> I would be happy to use the 2.6 branch in buster, but I can't see it in
> synaptic. Are you suggesting I could move from buster (testing) to sid
> (unstable) ? Can I add the sid repositories to buster without moving to sid
> completely? Apologies for my ignorance.

You can track both buster (testing) and unstable, and prefer buster
via apt pinning. See apt_preferences(5), for instance.

BTW, if 2.7.3 still has problems compared to 2.6.*, it would be nice
to warn the users, at least in the Debian ChangeLog.

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Message #78 received at 790204-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org>

To: 790204-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#790204: fixed in gnucash 1:2.7.3-1

Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 12:50:35 +0000

Source: gnucash
Source-Version: 1:2.7.3-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gnucash, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 790204@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org> (supplier of updated gnucash package)

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Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 22:28:21 +1100
Source: gnucash
Binary: gnucash gnucash-common python-gnucash
Architecture: source all amd64
Version: 1:2.7.3-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org>
Changed-By: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org>
Description:
 gnucash    - personal and small-business financial-accounting software
 gnucash-common - common files for the financial-accounting software Gnucash
 python-gnucash - Gnucash interface for Python
Closes: 790204
Changes:
 gnucash (1:2.7.3-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release [December 2017].
     * No longer depends on libwebkitgtk-1.0 (Closes: #790204)
       Thanks to John Ralls,
                 Jeremy Bicha,
                 Adrian Bunk,
                 Micha Lenk,
                 Steve Langasek,
                 Laurent Bigonville.
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