[alacarte] bump version to 3.44.2, update NEWS

[Alberts Muktupāvels <muktupavels src gnome org>]

commit d17e9b08324a9958f734c0756e6d185c16135f55
Author: Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>
Date:   Sat Jun 18 17:14:33 2022 +0300

    bump version to 3.44.2, update NEWS

 NEWS         | 11 +++++++++++
 configure.ac |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 759d09c..c193daa 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+==============
+Version 3.44.2
+==============
+
+Changes:
+        * Fix launcher saving (#16, #17)
+
+Translation updates:
+        * Basque
+        * Dutch
+
 ==============
 Version 3.44.1
 ==============
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b40e98f..8711908 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 dnl -*- Mode: autoconf -*-
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_PREREQ(2.53)
-AC_INIT(alacarte, 3.44.1, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=alacarte)
+AC_INIT(alacarte, 3.44.2, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/alacarte/-/issues)
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES],[AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(alacarte.in)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ GETTEXT_PACKAGE=alacarte
 AC_SUBST([GETTEXT_PACKAGE])
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([GETTEXT_PACKAGE], ["$GETTEXT_PACKAGE"], [Gettext package])
 
-AM_PATH_PYTHON(3.3)
+AM_PATH_PYTHON(3.7)
 
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(ALACARTE, libgnome-menu-3.0 >= 3.5.3 pygobject-3.0)