Debian is free to publish a fixed version without an official release. I encourage this.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2026 at 8:04 AM Jose Antonio Alguacil < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear GNU PSPP developers, > > I am writing regarding a bug in GNU PSPP 1.6.2 affecting the display of > odds ratios, relative risks, and their 95% confidence intervals in the > CROSSTABS procedure. > > I understand that this issue has already been fixed in later PSPP > releases. However, PSPP 1.6.2 is still distributed with Debian 12, meaning > that users of this version may continue to receive incorrect statistical > output. > > I reproduced the issue on Debian 12 and successfully applied the > correction to src/language/stats/crosstabs.c, replacing entries[i] with > entries[j] in the risk estimate output. > > I also updated the corresponding regression test in tests/language/stats/ > crosstabs.at, rebuilt the Debian package, and verified the corrected > results using real statistical data. > > I have prepared a minimal patch, pspp-1.6.2-crosstabs-fix.patch, > containing only these two changes. The patch has also been verified against > the original GNU PSPP 1.6.2 source archive. > > My intention is not to report a new bug, but to ask whether the project > would consider publishing a maintenance release of the 1.6.x branch, such > as PSPP 1.6.3, incorporating the existing correction. > > This would allow users who need to remain on PSPP 1.6.x to obtain a > corrected official release without upgrading to PSPP 2.x. > > I have attached the patch for your consideration. > > Thank you for your work on GNU PSPP. > > Kind regards, > > > > José Antonio Alguacil Ortiz > ------------------------------ > Contacto: > *Teléfono*: 658 538 640 > e_mail: [email protected] >
