debian stretch upgrade has made gnucash unworkable

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

It's a bit of a heavy-handed workaround, but you could install Guix, a functional package manager that sports  transactional and roll-back updates. I'm using Guix(SD) myself and the packaged GnuCash version works fine. The nice thing about Guix is that it should be independent from your system libraries, so it should work independently from it.

Head to gnu.org/software/guix for more information!

Maxim