hi,
> On Monday, 12 May 2014 1:37 AM, John Darrington > <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 07:28:21PM +0000, Dana M Williams wrote: > > What would be necessary to get it back into the repository > > The Ubuntu repositories (with a few exceptions, I think) include what Debian > has > in its repostitory. So it would be necessary for someone to take over the > maintainership of PSPP for the Debian project. i was talking about this in the #debian irc channel. apparently, it is scheduled to be dropped from the next release, jessie. so, after that even the old version (0.7.9) will not be available in the repository. you will have to add "untrusted, unofficial" ppa or compile it from git. > > and could folks with less technical expertise do it? > > All things are relative. I don't think it requires in depth programming > skills. -- > These days Debian has rather a lot of administrative > hoops to jump through, so that person would need to have the patience to > negotiate those too. > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer#Becoming_a_Debian_Maintainer I think > is > the page > which describes the process for becoming a Debian maintainer. i have that question too. i went through the debian maintainer link (posted above by john). it is very difficult to find debian sponsor/mentor, particularly, when i am not using debian myself. i have submitted a wishlist bug (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747699) as suggested in the irc channel. as i am using xubuntu 14.04, also submitted a launchpad bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pspp/+bug/1318160); needs confirmation. regards, som _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
