Restarting the free accounting search

Posted Jul 29, 2017 12:50 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566)
Parent article: Restarting the free accounting search

This is good timing - saw someone complaining a few days ago about being unable to rid themselves of an insecure lib because gnucash depends on it. I didn't have a good answer for them.

Restarting the free accounting search

Posted Jul 29, 2017 13:08 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (3 responses)

Which library? For distros, I guess the solution would be to patch+upgrade the library and restart gnucash.

Restarting the free accounting search

Posted Jul 29, 2017 17:29 UTC (Sat) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link] (1 responses)

It's more that gnucash itself lags behind and might be the last thing depending on that particular library and keeping it on the user's system.

Restarting the free accounting search

Posted Jul 29, 2017 20:05 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Yep, that was it. It's a GTK2 application, which is standard fare for software built to last, but they have a version of webkit-gtk that's seen no updates in over a year as a dependency.

Restarting the free accounting search

Posted Aug 3, 2017 16:45 UTC (Thu) by emorrp1 (guest, #99512) [Link]

libwebkitgtk-1.0, which is in the process of being removed from all the major distributions (#790204 in debian), so GnuCash have (very very recently) migrated to gtk+3.