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1862546] Re: Sync qalculate-gtk 3.3.0-1 (universe) from Debian experimental (main) - Multiple bugs, instabilities and superseded data combined in outdated package of qalculate

[Martin Babutzka]

Yeah, surely an update of of the qalculate-gtk package requires an
update of some dependencies. I am just surprised how effortful all of
this sounds while a lot of other Ubuntu packages I know and use are just
updated with every release.

I think thats the point of major releases to get an up-to-date version
of the software packages (and not only security fixes). Controversial to
the (modified) bug description I would also look forward to an update to
an actual up-to-date version (latest version is 3.7). But I take what I
get... and if it is not updated I will continue installing Debian
packages.

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Title:
  Sync qalculate-gtk 3.3.0-1 (universe) from Debian experimental (main)
  - Multiple bugs, instabilities and superseded data combined in
  outdated package of qalculate

Status in qalculate-gtk package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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  Qalculate in the Ubuntu repositories is severely outdated.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  I personally experienced multiple crashes, bugs and outdated data in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

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