bug in gnuCash (ubuntu edgy)

[email.listen at googlemail.com]

Am Fri, 15. September 2006 22:53 schrieb Scott J. Henson:
> email.listen at googlemail.com wrote:
> > Am Fri, 15. September 2006 10:06 schrieb Brendon:
> >> i all have a bug in gnucash under edgy  the latest build of gnucash
> >> from the edgy repos,  the  file selector (save file load file) keeps
> >> crashing the system  when i go to save my file gnucash  ends up
> >> crashing,  filed a bug report on launchpad,  but has anyone else had the
> >> same problem?
> >
> > May be it's because most people use GNUCash from
> > aqbanking.alioth.debian.org? ;)
>
> I don't, I use the edgy packages with a little hack to make
> the error go away.
>
> > So thats what most all people who need HBCI for secure online banking do
> > here in Europe .
>
> I would think that this would be a feature we would want in
> edgy.  Can you maybe file a bug and ask for a sync of this
> into edgy?  I'm sure it would help people and you wouldn't
> have to worry about installing stuff compiled for Debian
> Unstable.
Sorry, but debian don't ship gnucash-hbci because of licensing problems.

So thats the official explaination:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384627
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 HBCI cannot be supported at present in Debian gnucash, because the Debian
 aqbanking packages are built to link against a GPL-incompatible library
 libssl. There are GPL-compatible libraries libgnutls and libgcrypt they both
 provide the functionality of libssl, but they have a different API and it is
 not clear if they provide all functions that are needed. If you are
 interested in getting gnucash-hbci back in Debian, step in and help use!
 
 Until this situation is resolved, Debian gnucash cannot support HBCI.
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So 1st Thomas Bushnell is the maintainer of the Debian and the Ubuntu packages 
and 2nd I would say that Ubuntu's position on licensing is the same as the 
Debian position.

regards,
thomas