Confirming that 0.14 does fix the issue. It was released 3 years ago, but the Debian package was never updated.
** Attachment added: "diffstat of upstream tarballs" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4904838/upstream.diffstat -- transcalc crashes on startup since update to Edgy Eft https://launchpad.net/bugs/66844 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
