[Bug 1862546] [NEW] Sync qalculate-gtk 3.3.0-1 (universe) from Debian experimental (main) - Multiple bugs, instabilities and superseded data combined in outdated package of qalculate

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Please sync qalculate-gtk 3.3.0-1 (universe) from Debian experimental
(main)

Qalculate in the Ubuntu repositories is severely outdated. Compared to
2.8.2 in the repos which is more than 2 years old, 9 major releases have
been published (https://qalculate.github.io/news.html). These include
many bugfixes and improvements which makes it recommendable to update
the packages for the next Ubuntu release.

I personally experienced multiple crashes, bugs and outdated data in the
repository version. Not to mention missing features like the improved
unit conversions. I cannot list them in detail anymore because I always
install the newer qalculate packages (3.3) from debian experimental at
any computer I am working. The official Ubuntu version has become
unusable for me.

Qalculate is by far the best calculator I found for linux and I think
this package deserves some care.

Changelog entries since current focal version 2.8.2-1

qalculate-gtk (3.3.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version
    - refresh patches
    - update libqalculate Build-Depends version
  * Switch to debhelper 12
    - remove debian/compat
    - use debhelper-compat (= 12) in debian/control
  * Move to machine-readable debian/copyright file
  * Remove old transitional package qalculate
    - remove now useless debian/qalculate-gtk.install
  * debian/rules:
    - remove no longer needed override on dh_auto_test
    - remove --with-libgnome=no, no longer used upstream
  * refresh debian/gitlab-ci.yml

 -- Vincent Legout <vlegout at debian.org>  Wed, 31 Jul 2019 06:45:33 +0200

** Affects: qalculate-gtk (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: request update
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Sync qalculate-gtk 3.3.0-1 (universe) from Debian experimental (main) - Multiple bugs, instabilities and superseded data combined in outdated package of qalculate
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1862546
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