gnucash maint: Multiple changes pushed

Frank H. Ellenberger frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com
Thu Mar 23 09:39:35 EDT 2017


Hi Geert,

I would at least delay it for 1 release.
As Ted metioned before, you should check other mayor distris, too.
E.g. https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime
and the check the packages e.g. via distrowatch.

Regards
Frank

Am 23.03.2017 um 11:49 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> On woensdag 22 maart 2017 22:05:25 CET Geert Janssens wrote:
>> commit 9f3ad5510427eb69c857814de15e1c1be0727d2d
>> Author: Jesse Olmer <jesse at wickedgoodtimes.com>
>> Date:   Sat Feb 13 21:59:05 2016 -0800
>>
>>     Bug 739571 - Matching imported transactions doesn't indicate previously
>> matched entries
>>
>>     Track pending matches from the current import and display this
>> information in the match picker.
>>
> 
> This commit (which I pushed myself) breaks travis because its unit test uses 
> g_assert_true and friends.
> 
> A quick lookup shows the maint branch of gnucash is still running travis tests 
> on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise), which ships with glib-2.0 2.32 while g_assert_true 
> was introduced in glib-2.0 2.38.
> 
> I'm in two minds about how to proceed.
> - I could revert the patch and rework it for master only. This will delay its 
> formal release with a few months.
> - I could backport my patches that set the minimum required glib-2.0 version 
> to 2.40 and adjust the travis environment to trusty (14.04) like master.
> 
> The fundamental question here is do we still want to support Ubuntu 12.04 ? It 
> will be EOL by the end of next month so I don't know whether it's still worth 
> spending effort for ?
> 
> What you others think ?
> 
> Geert




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