[GNC] .deb package

[Lincoln A Baxter]

Hey everyone, the event I've been waiting for just happened.

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1012613/gnucash-133-2-migrated-to-testi
ng/

GunCash 3.3-2 was just migrated to Debian testing. It was blocked for a
long time because it did not work in all architectures.

As I understand it, Ubuntu releases are typically based on Debian
Testing.
And many people run Debian testing. I was unwilling to upgrade to
Testing unil GC was there. But I'll be doing that soon now.

Any Debian based distro, that is based on testing would most likely be
able to load the testing .deb GC

Lincoln


On Mon, 2018-12-24 at 11:11 -0800, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
> On 12/23/18 8:54 PM, Andrew Clark wrote:
> > Thanks Stephen,
> >
> > How is this different to the package in the testing distribution by 
> > Dmitry Smirnov that's listed as 3.3-2+b2 
> > (https://packages.debian.org/buster/gnucash)? Is it based on his 
> > package? Will it be merged with the main debian packages?
> >
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> I don't know about Dmitry's package.  I simply pulled the source from 
> Github (where the developers keep the latest source) and checked out the 
> appropriate tag/branch to build on my Ubuntu 18.04 box.
> 
> Based on the 3.3-2+b2, I am presuming that Dmitry used the second commit 
> after the 3.3 tag as his code.  At least if I interpret John's 
> explanation correctly.
> 
> --Steve
> 
> 
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 04:54, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net 
> > <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     I heard back from the user that requested a .deb package of GnC for
> >     Ubuntu 18.04.  Apparently it is working well for him.
> >
> >     So, for others that might want to check this out on other debian
> >     platforms, here is a link to the folder on my Google Drive:
> >
> >     https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fV_fURy6c77e7gf6S41lTacM7dFyy7VD
> >
> >     There I have the following:
> >
> >       3.3-0  This has the 3.3 tag on it in git source
> >
> >     3.3-153 and 3.3-159  From when the recent maint fixes were merged
> >     into
> >     the main-line (master)
> >
> >     3.3-170 from maint branch back on the 9th.
> >
> >     Note that these are compiled and built on a Ubuntu 18.04 box using
> >     checkinstall to create the .deb file.
> >
> >     --Steve
> >
> >     -- 
> >     Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
> >     Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com <mailto:Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com>
> >     kg7je at arrl.net <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>
> >     253-350-0166
> >     -------------------------------------------
> >     GnuPG Fingerprint:  8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andrew.
> 
>