[Bug 1871049] [NEW] FFe: darktable 2.6.3 in focal needs update to 3.0.1

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton):

This is a request to update darktable deb to match the snap ;)

The biggest new features to warrant it:
- UI rework; everything is now themable, and it works properly on high-DPI screens
- 'filmic RGB' module to replace old global tone-mapping modules
- a new culling mode

and more, full release notes at
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-3.0.0

This also pulls in the first bugfix release, plus a couple of commits
from git to fix some minor regressions found since.


--- original description: ---

Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa LTS still only has darktable 2.6.3 in the
official repositories.

darktable 3.0.0 was released Dec 24, 2019, and darktable 3.0.1 was
released March 09 2020.

( darktable feature releases are traditionally released each Christmas.
)

Please note that darktable 3.x is NOT backward compatible with darktable
2.6.3.  So there is no way for a user of a more current version of
darktable to even use darktable 2.6.3.  A supplement problem is that
running 2.6.3 when you have a 3.0.x db (eg. if upgrading Ubuntu to 20.04
in place) results in a totally silent fail at load.  Only if run from a
terminal do you see the '... db is too new ...  Aborting ...' message.

I'll submit a post to ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com re this

** Affects: darktable (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
         Status: New


** Tags: darktable focal welcome
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FFe: darktable 2.6.3 in focal needs update to 3.0.1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1871049
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