libfinance-quote-perl

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi Dom and Tom,

> On 11/10/2017 05:00 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:50:40PM +0100, Florian Schlichting wrote:
> > > 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.

I don't know how central Yahoo Finance is for Gnucash - it's just one of
Finance::Quote's many modules, and Gnucash in Debian doesn't seem to
have a bug report about it. However the Gnucash mailing list that Tom
linked to seems to have quite some discussion about finance-quote in
November. (CC'ing the Gnucash maintainer to hear if he has an opinion
about this?)

> > 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?

I think the interesting bit is the addition of AlphaVantage as a data
provider. This can be done like this:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libfinance-quote-perl.git/commit/?id=7b9d2e7474fa121c194e33317240cb4e03e77f44
but I'd suggest using the current version of AlphaVantage.pm from 1.45
and perhaps leaving out the test as it won't run without setting
ONLINE_TEST and an API key.

Another data provider that doesn't seem to work any more is ASX, but the
fix (included in 1.45) is somewhat more messy:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libfinance-quote-perl.git/commit/?id=255a9a7c6ff3d583e0376ac6a506a5e62a89fb9b

Florian

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 04:40:43AM -0600, tom wrote:
> 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