Bug#984851: O: qalculate-gtk -- Powerful and easy to use desktop calculator

[Vincent Legout]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I haven't been able to work on qalculate-gtk for way too long, my
apologies for that, I'm orphaning the package.

It should probably be updated with libqalculate.

Thanks,
Vincent

[James Lu]

Hi all,

I've been a longtime Qalculate user and I'm also willing to help keep
qalculate-gtk + libqalculate up to date.

My Salsa account is jlu-guest and I've also subscribed myself to the
tracker.

I'll happily extend Norbert's suggestion here:

Maintainer: team+qa...@tracker.debian.org
Uploaders: Phil Morrell <deb...@emorrp1.name>,
Norbert Preining <nor...@preining.info>,
James Lu <ja...@overdrivenetworks.com>

Best,
James

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Phil, hi James,

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, Phil Morrell wrote:
> Excellent I was hoping that would happen, though I only created the new
> micro team a couple of days ago! We must have been working on it at the

Thanks for creating it!

> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libqalculate/-/tree/debian/master
> NB. I've only merged 3.17.0, haven't reviewed changes yet e.g. manpage

Yeah, updating to some recent 3.N version is good. But nothing is urgent
now since we cannot push that out to unstable/testing for bullseye.

> The version in bullseye does not have autopkgtests, so if you think it's
> worth the effort to update the metadata, then please upload away. Are
> you on IRC, or just email? I'm emorrp1 wherever you find me.

I don't think it makes sense to invest any time in the current status
of bullseye unless bugs show up. We should concentrate on master branch
with 3.N data and get that into shape. Just MHO

Concerning IRC, yes, I hang around in a few chat rooms, any specific you
are around normally? On debian irc I am usually in #debian-ai,
#debian-kde, #debian-private, #debian-qt-kde, pluse some others on other
servers. Username normally norbert or norb.

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, James Lu wrote:
> I've been a longtime Qalculate user and I'm also willing to help keep
> qalculate-gtk + libqalculate up to date.

Great, having a small team working on it usually makes thing easier and
smoother. From my side all fine!

Best

Norbert

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[Phil Morrell]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 09:26:38AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Yeah, updating to some recent 3.N version is good. But nothing is urgent
> now since we cannot push that out to unstable/testing for bullseye.

Hi both, thanks for stepping up to co-maintain Qalculate! to prevent it
missing Debian 12. I have today pushed to qalculate-gtk the same repo
conversion to follow upstream git as I did for libqalculate. The default
branch is now debian/master with master following upstream on both.

I've merged all the proposed changes and made sure it builds locally,
but I could still do with some help updating the packaging from 3.3.0 to
3.17.0 e.g. Files-Excluded, copyright, install, Build-Depends. Once
that's done, we can upload to experimental and be ready for unstable.

> Concerning IRC, yes, I hang around in a few chat rooms, any specific you
> are around normally? On debian irc I am usually in #debian-ai,
> #debian-kde, #debian-private, #debian-qt-kde, pluse some others on other
> servers. Username normally norbert or norb.

Thanks, I've joined #debian-qt-kde as it seemed the smallest/relevant
one. I'm also around #debian-mentors, #debian-java, #debian-games etc.