bug in bug processing system;-)

[Fabien COELHO]

Please find enclose a stupid mail I had when trying to submit a bug. It
complains about missing headers, which happen to be actually included in
the mail returned afterwards..

Words fail me.

I really think that this mail-based-with-additional-headers bug reporting
system is a bad idea. I have not found a simple html form to feed with my
report.

-- 
Fabien Coelho ___ coelho@cri.ensmp.fr ___ http://www.cri.ensmp.fr/~coelho

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed,  6 Feb 2002 03:18:01 -0600 (CST)
From: Gnumatic bug Tracking System <bugs-admin@gnumatic.com>
To: Fabien COELHO <fabien@coelho.net>
Subject: Message with no Package: tag cannot be processed!         (QIF
    import problems)

Your message didn't have a Package: line at the start (in the
pseudo-header following the real mail header), or didn't have a
pseudo-header at all.

This makes it much harder for us to categorise and deal with your
problem report. Please _resubmit_ your report and tell us which package
the report is on. For help, check out http://www.gnumatic.com/bugs/Reporting.html.

Your message was dated Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:36:59 +0100 (CET) and had
message-id <Pine.LNX.4.43.0202060935230.3685@leuven.ensmp.fr>
and subject QIF import problems.
The complete text of it is attached to this message.

If you need any assistance or explanation please contact me.

Bug Tracker Admin
(administrator, Gnumatic bugs database)

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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:36:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Fabien COELHO <fabien@coelho.net>
To: submit@bugs.gnumatic.com
Subject: QIF import problems
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0202060935230.3685@leuven.ensmp.fr>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Package: gnucash
Version: 1.6.4

I installed gnucash-1.6.4 from the distributed rpms on a redhat 7.2.
I could not install gnucash-1.6.5 because of missing libraries for
which I had no rpms.

When importing QIF files from my bank, I had to fix manually syntactic
problems in the file generated by the bank. I think the QIF parser could
pretty easily handles these 'extensions'. I wrote a perl to handle the two
first problems.


1/ 2 digit year in date format

D05/02/02

instead of

D05/02'2002


2/ plus sign in total amount format

T+10,000,000.00

instead of

T10,000,000.00


3/ account choice not user friendly

When importing a QIF file, the system asks for the destination account.
Fine. You have to type the full name if it is a subaccount. I would
prefer a Choice box where one can select an existing account, or the
ability to create a new one.

Thanks in advance for the potential future fixes.

-- 
Fabien.