why is old version of PSPP avaialble in repository?

[som]

hi,

> On Friday, 9 May 2014 4:04 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> Am Freitag, den 09.05.2014, 18:10 +0800 schrieb som:
>>  hi,
>> 
> 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 

thanks for the response, oli. actually, the version available is 2 years old; compiled from git around 02/06/2012. i received the response from the developers though. apparently, the debian maintainer is not available since the last update! 

> On Friday, 9 May 2014 5:14 PM, John Darrington <john at darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> Because about 2 years ago the Debian maintainer went missing in action and to
> date,
> nobody has volunteered to take it over.

regards,

som