GnuCash release schedule

[Sébastien Villemot]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Nov 19, 2012, at 3:37 AM, Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> wrote:
>
>> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
>> 
>>> On Nov 6, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have updated the release schedule on the wiki
>>>> (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule#Goal) with the information I
>>>> have. A number of features are complete, some still need to be started (guile
>>>> 2.0 is on my list).
>>> 
>>> It suddenly popped into my head while working on a discussion in gtk-devel-list
>>> that RHEL isn't going to be ready for GC-2.6 in March unless the PCWorld author
>>> [1] is wrong about when RHEL 7 will be out. I can't find anything with a
>>> projected date for Debian Wheezy to go stable, so GC-2.6 may or may not be
>>> supported there, either. I have no strong feelings either way about whether
>>> that should impact our release date, but it's worth talking about.
>> 
>> Debian Wheezy is already in deep freeze, and will therefore ship GnuCash
>> 2.4 (even if GC 2.6 is released soon).
>
> Yeah, that's not the concern. The concern is that Wheezy will be required to
> run Gnucash-2.6, as will RHEL-7, because we're depending on Gtk+-2.24 and
> Gllib-2.28. Releasing 2.6 before those distros are released will freeze out
> Debian stable and RHEL users until the distros are released.

I see, sorry for my misunderstanding. Concerning the release date of
Debian Wheezy, there is a very significant probability that it happens
before March 2013, but it is impossible to be 100% sure of that.

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