Request for help: Distro releases and library version table

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb at becket.net> writes:
>
>> I'm not being Debian-centric....
>>
>> The state goal was to work on as many distributions as possible, and
>> get a sense of what libraries are the right ones to target for each
>> distribution.  That's fine.
>>
>> I'm explaining which are the correct Debian libraries to target.  I'm
>> not demanding that Debian must be targeted, just explaining that
>> targeting Debian stable is not the right way to target Debian.
>
> I respectfully disagree that none of the users of Debian/stable (or
> perhaps Debian/testing) would want to compile GnuCash-2 themselves.
> Obviously we don't expect you to create packages for those versions,
> but I /do/ expect users who don't want to run Debian/unstable to be
> able to build Gnucash on their own.

That's not beyond likelihood, I agree.  However, notice that already
Debian unstable does not include all the necessary dependencies, most
notably aqbanking.