why is old version of PSPP avaialble in repository?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 09.05.2014, 18:10 +0800 schrieb som:
> hi,
> 
> a very old version (0.7.9) of PSPP, the statistical software, is present in the repository.the present version is 0.8.3 (released on 25th April, 2014); the earlier version is 0.8.2 (released on 14th January 2014).
> 
> as the feature freeze date for trusty was on 20th February, 2014, should it at least not include 0.8.2 version of PSPP instead of 0.7.9 in the repository?
> 
> could anybody please provide some idea about this?
> 
as you can see by looking at the package version, this package has no
ubuntu changes (no -XubuntuX on the package version) ... it comes
straight from debian ... debian import freeze was on february 6th [1].
it is likely that the debian package was simply not updated in the two
weeks between the 0.8.2 upstream release and that date and nobody
requested a manual import for it after the import freeze took effect ...
note that feature freeze does not apply to universe packages, it could
have been synced manually at any time until release if someone had
requested this ....

ciao
	oli

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseSchedule

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