2.6.3 from GetDeb crashing on Ubuntu 14.04

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 16 May 2014 23:59:33 Divakar Ramachandran wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2014 02:04 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> > On 15 May 2014 20:54, Jamestk <davidjamestk at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >> I think you may have misread my post Colin, no serious fault
> >> reported this end.
> > 
> > No, actually I think you have misread mine :)  My post was in reply
> > to Divakar Ramachandran's suggestion that 2.6.3 has a serious fault
> > (though I had not trimmed his quote of your message, which I
> > probably should)
> 
> I was just suggesting that the issue of not being able to set absolute
> accounting period in 2.6.1 may be serious enough to request for a
> "stable release update" from Ubuntu for 14.04. It was my impression
> from the preceding discussion that 2.6.3 crashes on exit and that
> would be a more serious issue than the accounting period. However, I
> now realise that this is a GetDeb package problem and not an issue
> with 2.6.3. That being the case, how do we propose / suggest to
> Canonical that GnuCash 2.6.3 be included in the repository as a
> stable release update?
> 
If you are looking for a bug serious enough to warant a stable release 
update why don't you start the other way around ?

Read the release notes for gnucash 2.6.2/2.6.3. All bugs that got fixed 
are mentioned in there. You can then evaluate which one would be serious 
enough to warant a stable release update.

Geert