On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Thomas Fischer <fisc...@unix-ag.uni-kl.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I am the maintainer of KBibTeX, a BibTeX editor for KDE. KBibTeX > has been shipped for Debian since version 0.1.5 back in 2006 > thanks to Michael Hanke. > Unfortunately, the package for KBibTeX in Debian has not been > updated in a few years, the most recent package is from December > 2012. This version (0.4) is no longer maintained by upstream > (me). Since 2012, a number of more recent versions have been > released (0.5.x and 0.6). > > Whenever I receive bug reports for version 0.4, I usually ask > bug reporters to test the current stable version (0.6 right now) > to verify if the bug has been fixed. Unfortunately, many bug > reporters do no have the skills to install KBibTeX from source > themselves. > For example, see here: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330861 > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357883 > > It would be nice and very helpful to trace/close bug reports if > Debian would provide up-to-date packages for 'normal' users. > The current stable version is still written for KDE4, > dependencies have little if at all changed since 0.4. > Essentially, just the version counter has to be increased before > rebuilding/packaging KBibTeX. > > Looking forward to your feedback!
I have packaged a newer version but found non free file. Thus reporting. I plan to readd soon > Bye, > Thomas Fischer -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
