Question about tickets management from a Mac beginner

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 29, 2014, at 4:05 AM, nb wrote:
> 
> Hello guys,
> 
> I'm very new to Mac world, one week only.
> I don't know very well this list rules, so I'll try to do the minimum.

Welcome!


> I'm coming from Debian world (i386). When I had to report a bug, I received an automatic notification and a bug number.
> I want to use gnucash with python bindings because I have written some code to act uppon my data. On gnucash site, they say that to have these bindings it is neccessary to use the python27 variant. But this variant doesn't exist in Macports.
> Searching in Macports bugs, I've found a closed one saying that they have been added. But I don't find them.
> 
> $ port variants gnucash-devel
> gnucash-devel has the variants:
>    dbi: Adds dbi backend support
> [+]hbci: AqBanking/HBCI support
> [+]ofx: OFX support
> 
> $ port variants gnucash
> gnucash has the variants:
>    dbi: Adds dbi backend support
> [+]hbci: AqBanking/HBCI support
> [+]ofx: OFX support
> 
> So I reopend the bug (Ticket #33896) 4 days before, but nothing happens.
> 
> So my question is:
> how this works ?
> Do I have to do something else ?
> May I have missed a step ?

The python27 variant was added 2 years ago, and presumably worked at that time:

https://trac.macports.org/changeset/95009

but it was commented out (removed, effectively) 7 months ago when updating the port from 2.4.x to 2.6.1 because it didn't work anymore:

https://trac.macports.org/changeset/116990

It was accidentally re-enabled (though broken) 5 months ago when updating to 2.6.2:

https://trac.macports.org/changeset/118521

Then disabled again:

https://trac.macports.org/changeset/118835

The ticket tracking the brokenness of this variant is:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43254