recent invoice close crashes 2.2.6 -- would building from latest source fix that?

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Cam Ellison wrote:
> > Trying to build Gnucash from source in a Debian system is messy,
> > unless you're used to it.
>
> I hate replying to my own emails, but more than that I hate misleading
> people.  There is a bug filed, as it happens, and it's due to a specific
> patch.  No indication as to when it will get bypassed by 2.2.9 - that's
> not even in Experimental yet.
>
> Bugging the maintainer may or may not work - he seems very aware of the
> problem, but since Debian just came out of a freeze, getting packages
> into unstable is a dicey business.  If we all asked nicely, he might
> move 2.2.9 ahead,
> but it may not depend on him.

There is a 2.2.9 package available from a non-official repo 
deb http://mepis.blue-pearls.net/repo/ mepis8cr main non-free 
This is fine on my lenny slightly upgraded to squeeze system
but any potential user would want to check the dependencies carefully
in case a major library upgrade is required

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