Hi folks, is there anyone willing to relaunch the package inline-octave that was last included in lenny which is now oldstable. The Perl module is only one file and there is a current update available at http://search.cpan.org/~aadler/Inline-Octave/ .
Thanks in advance for your support and maintainership, Thomas Uhle On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Thomas Uhle wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Thomas Weber wrote: > > > Hi Thomas, > > > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:33:37PM +0200, Thomas Uhle wrote: > > > Recent Perl bindings for Octave are missing in current > > > stable/testing/unstable Debian releases. > > > The statement in bug #516112 as can be viewed at > > > http://bugs.debian.org/516112 is not true any longer. > > > The latest version 0.31 supports at least Octave 3.2 and > > > can be downloaded from CPAN at > > > http://search.cpan.org/~aadler/Inline-Octave/ . > > > > > > Is there any chance of re-adding this package to Debian's > > > package repository? > > > > Someone will need to step up and do the necessary work. As you haven't > > received an answer so far about it, I'd say that no one of the current > > members in the group is interested in the Perl bindings - I know that > > I'm definitely not interested. > > > > You might want to check with the Perl packagers in Debian. There are > > a lot of CPAN packages in Debian, maybe they are interested in > > maintaining the package. > > > > Thomas > > > > > Hi Thomas, > > thanks a lot for your message. > I think that the task to update the old Debian package with the new > upstream release is quickly done by someone who knows about the current > Lintian stuff, etc. I cannot do it in due time since it is too long ago > when I was building Debian packages myself and I am not up-to-date for > sure. Moreover, I could imagine that it is no mess for a current Debian > package maintainer because the Perl module consists of only one file. > I will try to contact and ask Debian's Perl package maintainers. That's > actually a good idea. > > Thanks again, > > > Thomas > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org