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libfinance-quote-perl package

Finance:Quote fails to correctly fetch data for Gnucash

Bug #272777 reported by Zach
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Nominated for Intrepid by Zach

Bug Description

Binary package hint: libfinance-quote-perl

In upgrading to Intrepid, Gnucash was no longer able to fetch stock quotes. Using the Gnucash utility gnc-fq-dump, I got the following output:
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zach@titan:~$ gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo AMD
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: AMD <=== required
      date: 00/00/2000 <=== required
  currency: USD <=== required
      last: 5.42 <=\
       nav: <=== one of these
     price: 5.42 <=/
  timezone: <=== optional

All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock AMD
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As you can see the date returned was erroneous. After some internet searching and comparison to my other Debian system, I found that /usr/share/perl5/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm had an error in it. In the @FIELDS definition, "time" was before "date", but in the @FIELD_ENCODING definition "d1" was before "t1". Swapping the position of either of those (so they properly corresponded to each other) fixed the problem.

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Zach (v-launchpad-zach-sadecki-net) wrote :

Debian 1.13-4 fixed this problem...

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tsultana (tsultana) wrote :

Will the 1.13-4 update be included in the final Intrepid release?

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gloonie (gloonie) wrote :

This is really critical for us. Will this be fixed in Intrepid final?

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gloonie (gloonie) wrote :

I tried changing /usr/share/perl5/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm, and that got things working on the command line. But Gnucash still fails. Perhaps something further is required.

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Cris (cristiano.p) wrote :

I had the same problem: Zack's fix seems to make GnuCash retrieve quotes correctly for me.

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gloonie (gloonie) wrote :

Zack's fix seems to have worked for me, too. I had to reboot, and then is seemed fine. So it looks like if that one little change is made to /usr/share/perl5/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm we should be in good shape!

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tsultana (tsultana) wrote :

That change worked for me as well.

Richard Laager (rlaager)
Changed in libfinance-quote-perl:
status: New → Confirmed
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Adam Plumb (adamplumb) wrote :

I had the same issue when I tried retrieving prices in Intrepid with the standard gnucash package. Manually updating finance quote fixed the problem for me. I ran the command: sudo gnc-fq-update.

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garrison (jim-garrison) wrote :

Intrepid is no longer supported, so I believe this bug should be closed as WONTFIX

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Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote :

All supported versions of Ubuntu have > 1.13-4.

Changed in libfinance-quote-perl (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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