[arch-general] Gnucash 2.6.10-1 download error

[kendell clark]

On 1/28/2016 6:49 PM, Francis Gerund wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:57:05 -0500
>> Francis Gerund <ranrund at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Should this be reported as a bug (or 2-3 bugs)?
>> No, it's not a bug. Info about this has been all over the mailing lists,
>> forums, and IRC for days. Do some checking around.
>>
>
> I'm sort of new to Arch.  I just installed yesterday, so didn't know about
> that.  I did not see a bug report (maybe I missed it).
>
> And I thought that even if it is flagged as out-of-date, it would still
> install.
>
> I thought it was a reasonable question to ask (with some detail provided),
> and I was tring to be helpful.
>
> I don't know the etiquette here yet.  Sorry.
>
> And Gnucash is really important to me.
>
> I will try checking the email archives.
>
> At Arch, is IRC preferred over mailing lists as a source of information?
>
> IRC is much harder for em to use effectively; it's like trying to dring
> from a fire hose.


This seems reasonable to me. Even if a package is flagged out of date, 
it will still download and install successfully, unless there's a 
problem with it's gpg signature. If that's the case, pacman will fail 
with a sometimes cryptic error. If you want, I can try building a 
package from current stable gnucash source and upload it somewhere where 
you can fetch until arch updates it's package.
  Thanks
Kendell clark