Problem with configure.in, AM_PATH_GWRAP and g-wrap 1.9

[Neil Williams]

On Monday 14 November 2005 2:36 am, David Hampton wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 18:58 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Vitaly Lipatov <LAV at vl3143.spb.edu> writes:
> > > On Wednesday 07 September 2005 05:28, David Hampton wrote:
> > > Is it bug in g-wrap package really?

A bug in the development library package for Debian built from g-wrap: 
libgwrap-runtime0-dev.

> > It was a bug in a previous version of the g-wrap package, yes.
> > That bug should have been fixed already.
>
> I have not seen a new version of 1.9 containing this fix.

It was a bug in the libgwrap-runtime0-dev package - not the g-wrap source. 
i.e. it was a Debian packaging bug. I reported it as such and it was fixed by 
an updated release to Debian by Andreas. That release is 1.9.6-3. The 
problematic release was -2.

There was no problem in g-wrap 1.9.6 source. There was no requirement for an 
upstream release.

All Debian based distributions will upgrade to -3 in due course - Debian 
unstable was updated immediately, others take a little time to include 
releases.

Subject: Bug#323462: fixed in g-wrap 1.9.6-3
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:02:25 -0700

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323462

Note Andreas' comment:
"The package is perfectly usable for developing new-style G-Wrap wrappers, see
e.g. guile-gnome, hence the severity downgrade. I will upload a fixed package 
soonish, so GnuCash can transition to G-Wrap 1.9"

It IS our problem in that it only affected gnucash builds because we have not 
transitioned fully to g-wrap 1.9 - in the opinion of Andreas (not me!).

Is this a reflection of all those deprecated warnings we get from test 
routines that use guile?

It is clear that our current guile implementation using g-wrap-wct.h will NOT 
continue to be supported. The release was to enable us to transition - 
Andreas is clearly of the opinion that gnucash has been granted a temporary 
concession.

We already have quite a few of those or gnucash 1.8 would have been dropped 
from distributions like Debian many months ago.

I'd hate to see G2 dropped from Debian despite all this effort simply because 
of the use of one out-dated header file.

So the bug has been fixed, but the real problem actually remains - in our SVN.

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