Bug#1101922: gnome-calculator freezes on start, cannot update exchange rates

[Anton Petrov]

Package: gnome-calculator
Version: 1:43.0.1-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
gnome-calculator on Debian stable is unable to update the exchange rates for
currency conversions for the Financial mode upon starting of the application,
and the result is the app freezes on start.
This have been fixed by the GNOME team in newer GNOME versions, but the GNOME
43 in Debian Stable is no longer supported.

For example check
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calculator/-/issues/470
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/-/issues/420

It was suggested to me to file a bug report with the Debian maintainers to
backport the fix.
Thanks.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.10
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-32-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-calculator depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-4
ii  libadwaita-1-0                               1.2.2-1
ii  libc6                                        2.36-9+deb12u10
ii  libgee-0.8-2                                 0.20.6-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.74.6-2+deb12u5
ii  libgtk-4-1                                   4.8.3+ds-2+deb12u1
ii  libgtksourceview-5-0                         5.6.2-1
ii  libmpc3                                      1.3.1-1
ii  libmpfr6                                     4.2.0-1
ii  libsoup-3.0-0                                3.2.2-2
ii  libxml2                                      2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1

Versions of packages gnome-calculator recommends:
ii  gvfs  1.50.3-1
ii  yelp  42.2-1

gnome-calculator suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information