pspp version not being udated to the latest stable release

[som]

PSPP is a statistical analytical software[1]. the present stable version is 0.8.3 which was released on 25th April, 2014[2]. the earlier stable version, 0.8.2, was released on 14th January, 2014[2].

unfortunately, the version of PSPP present in the repository, is not the latest one. instead, it was almost 2 years old (0.7.9, compiled from git repository on 02/06/2012).

the old version is lacking in many features, eg, logistic regression. the stable version could be downloaded[2] or compiled from git[3]; but the benefit of repository is not available.

links:

[1]- http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/
[2]- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/
[3]- http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=pspp

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: pspp (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat May 10 17:03:04 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-16 (24 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20140326)
SourcePackage: pspp
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[som (drsoumalya-blog)]

two points-

1. though it is saying that PSPP is not installed; but that is not true. PSPP 0.8.3 is downloaded and installed; but not from the repository.

2. apparently, the debian maintainer for the package (PSPP) is not available for two years. as a result, PSPP could not be updated in debian. ubuntu is suffering because of that.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Friedrich-beckmann (friedrich-beckmann)]

The regression works now also in ubuntu with debian package release 0.8.5-3.