[Bug 605027] Re: Please merge qtiplot 0.9.8-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

[Scott Kitterman]

Ack. Approved. Go ahead.

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Please merge qtiplot 0.9.8-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)
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Status in “qtiplot” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “qtiplot” package in Debian: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: qtiplot

Current version cannot be installed due to Qt Assistant changes in Qt 4.7 (bug #598826) so we need to add Build-Depends: libqtassistantclient-dev and Depends: qt-assistant-compat to debian/control.  Now would be a good time to merge with the latest Debian version.


FFE application:
Lots of minor (and some major) bug fixes and feature improvements. The current version of qtiplot in maverick FTBFS, so we either must do this merge or at least patch the current version to use the packages listed above. There are some new features which have been in testing in Debian for a month. This bug has been active over a month (before FF) with user testing. The hold up was generating a clean patch, and there now is a clean debdiff. Debdiff and build log is below.

Upstream changelog:
What's new in QtiPlot 0.9.7.11:
· Easy import of data from Excel workbooks (.xls files) and from Open Document Format spreadsheets (.ods files).
· Lowess data smoothing (thanks to Jonas Bähr).
· QtiPlot now recognizes a lot of fundamental constants: the user can type pi, Pi, e, c, h, hbar, k, Na, g, etc... in a spin box and the constant is automatically calculated (see the user manual fore more details).
· Implemented an Origin-like image profile plot tool.
· Added two new zoom tools for horizontal and vertical zooming/panning.
· Added two format options for time scales: "M" (used to display minutes as: h*60 + m) and "S" (used to display the total number of seconds).
· Improved copy/paste of plot layers.
· Improved export to the SVG format.
· Modified the layer geometry dialog so that it operates on the layer canvas area, thus making the alignment of layers a lot easier.
· Added the possibility to customize x/y zero lines in an Origin-like manner: they have the same pen as the yLeft/xBottom axes.
· Fixed the behavior of data reader tools with respect to non numerical data.



What's new in QtiPlot 0.9.7.13:
· Now every aspect of a curve can be predefined by the user via the curves tab in the preferences dialog.
· It is also possibile to customize the default list of curve colors and symbols.
· With the newly added support for transparency in filled curves you can realize even more beautiful graphs.
· Added the possibility to link the X axes of all layers in a plot window.
· Implemented the possibility to hide first/last ticks and labels of a plot axis.
· Improved autoscaling when using log scales.
· Added the possibility to define a custom grid of plot layers from selected table columns.
· It is now easier than ever to create custom grids of layers using the improved Arrange layers dialog.
· Fixed exporting of legend symbols.



What's new in QtiPlot 0.9.7.14:
· This release highly improves the import of Origin project files: all versions starting with 6.0 are now fully supported.
· New analysis tools for 2D plot curves were added: a subtract straight line tool and a subtract reference data tool.
· A new extract worksheet data dialog was added allowing users to easily filter table values.
· Improved the ASCII import dialog: now it is possible to specify the type of data to be imported.
· Implemented automatic axes labeling for 2D plots.
· The import of Excel spreadsheets with date/time cells was improved.
· Improved the 2D plot dialog and the arrange layers dialog.
· Fixed a few minor bugs.



What's new in QtiPlot 0.9.8:
This release highly improves QtiPlot's interoperability with Microsoft Excel:
· Tables/matrices can now be exported as .xls files.
· The import of Excel spreadsheets was improved.
· On Windows, if Excel is installed on your computer, QtiPlot also imports the charts from your workbooks.

· The import of Origin project files was also highly improved.
· The look and feel of the fit wizard was improved.
· The import ASCII wizard was also improved: now the date/time format of data columns can be easily specified by the user during the import process.


Debian changelog entries follow:

 qtiplot  (0.9.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Bump standards version to 3.9.0
   * Change python version to 2.6

 -- Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <gudjon at gudjon.org>  Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:29:05 +0200 qtiplot (0.9.7.14-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Build QTeXEngine into program
   * Bump liborigin2 dependency to >=1:06042009+svn1724
   * Bump muparser dependency to 1.32
 -- Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <gudjon at gudjon.org>  Sun, 23 May 2010 10:17:19 +0200

qtiplot (0.9.7.13-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
   * Minor fix to patch 01_build_system.diff
   * Add qwtplot3d to build.conf
   * Bump standards version to 3.8.4
   * Fix spelling errors in description
   * Add misc depends in qtiplot-doc
   * Remove patch 02_docbook_stylesheet and
     04_add_includes.diff
   * Rename 03_fix_qti_wordlist.txt_path to
     02_fix_paths.diff
 -- Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <gudjon at gudjon.org>  Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:50:00 +0200