app-office/gnucash-5.4 was released on 24 September. 5.4 includes a fix ( https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1736 ) for a very annoying bug ( https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798990 ) in 5.3 (and apparently also 5.2, but that one was never added to Portage) that affects my workflow. Please consider bumping to 5.4. I am currently running 5.4 through a local ebuild which is a copy of the one for 5.3 but with a "-1" added to SRC_URI: --- /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-office/gnucash/gnucash-5.3.ebuild 2023-09-23 23:40:53.000000000 +0200 +++ gnucash-5.4.ebuild 2023-10-22 16:28:04.431151543 +0200 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="A personal finance manager" HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnucash.org/" -SRC_URI="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.bz2" +SRC_URI="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/${PV}/${P}-1.tar.bz2" LICENSE="GPL-2+" SLOT="0" This works for me, but I am only using a fraction of the available functionality, and none of the external integrations. I have also not looked at the gnucash-docs package. Reproducible: Always
@Karl-Johan Karlsson, could you please check two important things that got screwed in v5.0-5.3? 1. Bug <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798844> -- now solved (?) 2. Custom report menu empty in 5.3 -- no official bug report. I'll do the same on my side.
(In reply to sphakka from comment #1) > @Karl-Johan Karlsson, could you please check two important things that got > screwed in v5.0-5.3? I cannot. Neither is in functionality that I use, and neither contains sufficient information for me to generate test cases.
(In reply to sphakka from comment #1) Did some tests. > 1. Bug <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798844> -- now solved (?) I confirm that "assign as payment" (upstream #798844) works fine. > 2. Custom report menu empty in 5.3 -- no official bug report. This is still broken in GC-5.4. Details: I have a bunch of custom reports installed and made available via a new menu item "Reports > Custom", which is correctly created but is empty. As a workaround, custom reports can be added to an already existing menu item, like "Reports > Examples". I'll file a bug upstream. Otherwise, the new build GC-5.4 looks OK :-)
I haven't bumped because upstream has shipped yet another broken test. Are there any opinions on restricting tests for this ebuild? Fixing the tests require extra effort, and upstream is generally not receptive to bugs originating from Gentoo. So, no one but us benefits from tests that work properly.
(In reply to Aaron W. Swenson from comment #4) > I haven't bumped because upstream has shipped yet another broken test. Are > there any opinions on restricting tests for this ebuild? > > Fixing the tests require extra effort, and upstream is generally not > receptive to bugs originating from Gentoo. So, no one but us benefits from > tests that work properly. You should look into the cause and see if you can reproduce the test failure manually: * If not, why not? Find out what's specific about the ebuild environment. * If you can, report it upstream, as it's clearly not Gentoo specific. You can also skip individual tests if you've analysed what it does and determined it's not a (serious) regression. You should not restrict tests simply because there's a failure.
(In reply to Aaron W. Swenson from comment #4) > [...] > Fixing the tests require extra effort, and upstream is generally not > receptive to bugs originating from Gentoo. also... FWIW, this isn't my (limited) experience. They've taken patches and such for new compilers like GCC 14 and they also took patches in the past for test failures from contributors.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=28489b1a00ab51a5162fdbfe736050fd0a31517b commit 28489b1a00ab51a5162fdbfe736050fd0a31517b Author: Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-12-13 13:40:07 +0000 Commit: Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-12-13 13:42:21 +0000 app-office/gnucash: Add 5.4 Temporarily restrict tests until we can get it working reliably with an installation in place. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/916122 Signed-off-by: Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@gentoo.org> app-office/gnucash/Manifest | 1 + app-office/gnucash/gnucash-5.4.ebuild | 226 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 227 insertions(+)
