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On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 22:38 +0300, Peter Volkov wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@gentoo. |
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> org> wrote: |
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> > Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change |
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> Aaron, but why do we need this news item? 2.7 version is a |
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> development version that is not supposed to be used by end users. As |
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> far as I understand this backup is a temporary measure until stable |
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> release will be out. It's much better to have this version package |
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> masked. Then in package mask comment we could note the need for |
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> backup. |
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2.6 is insecure by 400+ ancient webkit-gtk security vulnerabilities, we |
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can't responsibly wait anymore. 2.7.3 was tested by Aaron (who uses it |
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daily) to work quite nicely. |
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I want to last rite gnucash-2.6 used webkit-gtk before the month is |
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over, as the maintainer of webkit-gtk, and if 2.7 isn't there, 2.6 will |
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simply be fully masked as well along it. |
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Regarding the Display-If-Installed, it should indeed be shown before |
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upgrade, in my opinion; otherwise so easy to already get things |
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migrated to new format before any backups are made. Then again, as 2.6 |
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will go away soon anyway, the usefulness of these backups is limited, |
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without some local overlay. I didn't quite understand Ciaran mail; if |
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the header actually means "display when an upgrade to 2.7 is possible", |
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then that's best. |
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Regarding elog vs news, please keep in mind that this is limited to |
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ONLY those that have gnucash installed, so this isn't one of these |
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"will be shown forever in 5 years for fresh stage3 install starts". We |
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should be able to use per-package news items much more freely for leaf |
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packages. |
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