"Point of sale debit or credit (Note: Depends on signage of amount)" appended to transactions in 2.6.17

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 5, 2017, at 2:47 PM, John Vermeer <johnve at juno.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since upgrading to Gnucash 2.6.17 I am seeing the string "Point of sale debit or credit (Note: Depends on signage of amount)" appended to the description field of all my OFX transactions. I have aqbanking bringing most transactions directly from my credit union.
> 
> This exact string is found in https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/master/src/import-export/ofx/gnc-ofx-import.c [line 107]. But I am not certain that that is where it is coming from. I suppose that my credit union could also be appending the string.
> 
> This is happening in a home compiled Linux version as well as under Gnucash installed in Windows 10.
> 
> Is this a new feature? Or, possibly, a bug?

It's a new feature [1] that was supposed to apply only to HBCI, so there's an option to enable it on the HBCI import dialog but not the OFX one where it's enabled by default.

Regards,
John Ralls

[1] https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/139