libfinance-quote-perl

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:50:40PM +0100, Florian Schlichting wrote:
> Hi tom,
> 
> > Recently with yahoo finance closing its' api the library has unfortunately
> > broke gnucash's fetching of stock prices.
> > Fortunately the developers for the project have released several updates for
> > it to work.
> > 
> > I was just wondering what would be the timeline of seeing it into testing.
> 
> thanks for the heads-up - we don't usually see what changes a new CPAN
> version brings until someone gets around to actually process the update,
> so things like these may go unnoticed for weeks or months.
> 
> I just uploaded Finance::Quote 1.45, so it should arrive in testing by
> next weekend.
> 
> Given that this affects gnucash functionality, should we consider
> uploading the new version to stretch-backports (even though the package
> from unstable should work just fine on Stretch)?

No, if gnucash is broken in stable, it should be fixed by an update
to stable. So the question is whether the new package, or parts of it,
are suitable for an s-p-u upload.

The changelog is a bit vague on this, as the recent entries don't
mention anything about Yahoo's service. Perhaps the OP can provide
clarification on what changes are strictly needed to restore functionality
so they can be considered for cherry-picking?

Dominic.

Dominic.