Bug 28877 - gnucobol: Version is a out of date release
Summary: gnucobol: Version is a out of date release
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 8
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: QA Team
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: MGA8-64-OK
Keywords: advisory, validated_update
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2021-05-05 19:04 CEST by Vincent Coen
Modified: 2023-09-03 22:58 CEST (History)
7 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: gnucobol-3.1-0.dev20200412.4.mga8.src.rpm
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments
test of cobol (106 bytes, text/plain)
2023-08-27 13:56 CEST, Herman Viaene
Details

Description Vincent Coen 2021-05-05 19:04:48 CEST
Version provided is of v3.0 but current one's are :

v3.1.2 

or

v3.2

I would do the updates as I use this prodact almost daily but would need the rpm building scripts for this package.
Comment 1 David GEIGER 2021-05-05 19:18:53 CEST
Assigning to the registered maintainer!

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210
Assignee: bugsquad => smelror

Jani Välimaa 2021-05-05 19:31:01 CEST

Source RPM: gnucobol => gnucobol-3.1-0.dev20200412.4.mga8.src.rpm
Summary: Version is a out of date release => gnucobol: Version is a out of date release

Comment 2 Stig-Ørjan Smelror 2023-08-15 15:10:59 CEST
Advisory
========

GNUCobol has been updated to version 3.1.2 as a general bug fix update.

References
==========
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/code/HEAD/tree/tags/gnucobol-3.1.2/NEWS


Files
=====

Uploaded to core/updates_testing

lib64cob-devel-3.1.2-1.mga8
lib64cob4-3.1.2-1.mga8
gnucobol-3.1.2-1.mga8

from gnucobol-3.1.2-1.mga8.src.rpm

Assignee: smelror => qa-bugs

Comment 3 Herman Viaene 2023-08-27 13:55:52 CEST
MGA8-64 MATE on Acer Aspire 5253
No installation issues.
No previous updates, found some very basic test from https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2017/204/Tutorials-COBOL
File will be attached.
$ cd Documents/cobol/
[tester8@mach7 cobol]$ cobc -free -x -o test test.cbl
[tester8@mach7 cobol]$ ./test
Ciao!

Works OK.

CC: (none) => herman.viaene

Comment 4 Herman Viaene 2023-08-27 13:56:32 CEST
Created attachment 13949 [details]
test of cobol
Herman Viaene 2023-08-27 13:56:46 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8-64-OK

Comment 5 r howard 2023-08-28 02:18:59 CEST
gnucobol 3.1.2 is old and out of date.
gnucobol 3.2 is the current version.
See
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/code/HEAD/tree/tags/gnucobol-3.2/NEWS
and
https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/

CC: (none) => rihoward1

Comment 6 Thomas Andrews 2023-08-28 15:34:49 CEST
I'm going to send this on so that these bugfixes get to our Mageia 8 users. Please file a new bug for Mageia 9 with regard to updating to gnucobol 3.2, and include that Mageia 8 is also affected.

Validating. Advisory in comment 2.

CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs
Keywords: (none) => validated_update

Comment 7 r howard 2023-08-28 21:22:12 CEST
Thomas https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32197 has been created by Stig to address updating to gnucobol 3.2 for Mageia 9
Comment 8 Thomas Andrews 2023-08-28 22:12:41 CEST
And I see that he is leaving Mageia 8 at 3.1.2, at least for the time being.
Comment 9 Vincent Coen 2023-08-28 23:45:44 CEST
Pity
Comment 10 Nicolas Lécureuil 2023-08-29 09:25:49 CEST
(In reply to Stig-Ørjan Smelror from comment #2)
> Advisory
> ========
> 
> GNUCobol has been updated to version 3.1.2 as a general bug fix update.
> 
> References
> ==========
> https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/code/HEAD/tree/tags/gnucobol-3.1.2/NEWS
> 
> 
> Files
> =====
> 
> Uploaded to core/updates_testing
> 
> lib64cob-devel-3.1.2-1.mga8
> lib64cob4-3.1.2-1.mga8
> gnucobol-3.1.2-1.mga8
> 
> from gnucobol-3.1.2-1.mga8.src.rpm

can we do a new bugreport to update gnucobol to version 3.2 ?

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 11 Dave Hodgins 2023-09-03 21:23:43 CEST
Updating to 3.2 would be ok as long as it's a bugfix release, but should be
handled in a new bug report.

Advisory for 3.1.2 committed to svn.

Keywords: (none) => advisory
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 12 Vincent Coen 2023-09-03 22:03:05 CEST
All updates within 3 series are bug fixes although some, are also feature improvements so related at a light level.

3.2 has been out for over a month and 3.1.2 for almost three years !

Update requests for gnucobol has been ongoing for over two years.

If the current maintainer does not wish to keep it up to date perhaps it should be passed on to someone else who keep up to date with releases as as a Cobol Programmer.
Comment 13 Mageia Robot 2023-09-03 22:58:55 CEST
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2023-0058.html

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED


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