Finance::Quote support requires libcrypt-ssleay-perl, but gnucash doesn't require it.

Seems to be a bug in the Crypt::SSLeay CPAN package that is fixed in debian/ubuntu packages. See
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/perl-modules.html
http://librarian.launchpad.net/1407790/crypt-ssleay_0.51-5.diff.gz

It is definitely no bug in the gnucash package :)

The problem cannot be a bug in Crypt::SSLeay, because Crypt::SSLeay is not being installed in the first place, though gnucash requires it for full functionality. The problem is that the libcrypt-ssleay-perl is not installed by the gnucash package; the bug, then, is in gnucash.

OK, I will stop rejecting bugs ;-)

I assumed you did what gnc-fq-check told you, namely run "gnc-fq-update" as root. If you do this, you will see that Crypt::SSLeay is not installed, since there is indeed a bug in the CPAN package.

So now i suppose (hopefully correctly) that you want gnucash to depend on libcrypt-ssleay-perl. I would rather propose to make libfinance-quote-perl to depend on it.

What do you think?

PS: From the release notes of FQ 1.12:
* Makefile.PL: State the dependency on Crypt::SSLeay that several modules now have.

My current understanding is:

* Finance::Quote will work on its own without Crypt::SSLeay.

* gnucash will not support Finance::Quote unless Crypt::SSLeay is installed.

Based on this, it seems to me that as Crypt::SSLeay support is peculiar to gnucash's particular use of Finance::Quote, it should be required directly by gnucash.

I believe, but am not quite certain, that Finance::Quote has certain capabilities that are only available with Crypt::SSLeay installed. I would guess that in this case, libfinance-quote-perl should recommend but not require libcrypt-ssleay-perl. Is this how the recommends/requires policy works?

I know that edgy has FQ 1.11 included, but i still vote for filing this bug to libfinance-quote-perl, based on the following quote of the author/maintainer(?) of FQ, David Hampton, in http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2006-August/017434.html

"""[...] install the perl Crypt::SSLeay module. This module is required by the latest version of Finance::Quote (v1.12), so the scripts in gnucash 2.0 were updated to check for it as well."""

Adam, I guess you are fine with Debian's solution, right? :)
Closing, fixed in 2.0.1-2.