Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change

[Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 20:00 -0500, Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
> On 2018-01-10 22:53, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:48:32 -0500
> > "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > Modified a bit. This should show for anyone who has GnuCash
> > > installed.
> > 
> > For anyone who has any version of GnuCash installed, either now or
> > at
> > any point in the future. (See the recent thread on expiring news
> > items...) Are you sure you don't just want to target this at people
> > who
> > have the old version installed, instead?
> 
> As mentioned, the concern is that someone will try to use a new
> version
> and old version simultaneously.
> 
> How about “<app-office/gnucash-4"? It would allow it to "expire"
> after
> quite some time. At least past the point that we'd be concerned
> about,
> I'm sure.

That sounds good to me. The background here is, that once 2.7 is
released as stable, it'll be released as version 3.0, so 4 is after
that.
And then if they keep doing 3.2, 3.4 and so on for a long time instead,
you can try to remember to tweak the news item to expire before, e.g to
a version that drops forward migration support from 2.6.

This is all on the premise, that it's a leaf package and only kept
shown to those that have it.


Mart