libfinance-quote-perl

[tom]

Hello Florian and Dominic,

I believe version 1.40 of Finance::Quote fixes it with the inclusion of 
AlphaVantage.

Source:
https://sourceforge.net/p/finance-quote/discussion/12832/thread/af96314b/#0343
and
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2017-November/072781.html

Thanks,
Tom

On 11/10/2017 05:00 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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.