documentation bug 687820

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 7 08:50:16 EST 2017


Once again, Geert, you come to clarify. Indeed, I was not aware that this was a comma-delimited list. With only one dependency, that is not clear from the page. 

Once again, I prove that there is nothing too simple that I can’t screw up.

David

> On Feb 7, 2017, at 3:40 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op dinsdag 7 februari 2017 10:17:38 CET schreef David T. via gnucash-devel:
>> Frank, 
>> I'm pretty sure those features are not opened to mere mortals, at least, I
>> can't see them. That's what I meant when I said I could only edit an
>> existing dependency entry.  David T.
>> 
> When I open bugs, I see Depends and Blocks. If there's no dependency yet, both 
> fields are plain text fields in which you can enter a comma separated list of 
> bug numbers. If there's already a dependency (for example bug 687820 depends 
> on closed bug 777318) the info will change to a list of clickable bug numbers 
> and an "edit" option. When I click on the "edit" option the field changes back 
> to a text field with a comma separated list of bugs it depends on. As there's 
> only one bug, there's no commas either of course. I have no added one more 
> dependency on your newest proposal to merge the introductory chapters. I did 
> this starting from that bug and entering "687820" in the Blocks field.
> 
> From your earlier attempts it looks like you have the proper privileges to 
> alter both fields. Perhaps it wasn't clear the fields expect a comma separated 
> list ? Or is there still something else (which is possible because I have 
> Developer privileges) ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert



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