The package open-cobol is outdated and should be renamed to gnu-cobol

Bug #1572699 reported by Simon Sobisch
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Bug Description

OpenCOBOL was renamed to GnuCOBOL in the progress of moving to GNU.
 People often use `apt-get install gnu-cobol` and wonder why there is no such a package. Additional the version that `apt-get install open-cobol` installs is outdated (It is OpenCOBOL 1.1 from Feb 2009 [which is misleadingly marked as unstable]). The most current release from GnuCOBOL can always be be found at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol it currently is http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnu-cobol-1.1.tar.gz (From Jan 2014). This version does not only change the name (it has the intermediate spelling GNU Cobol which was changed to GnuCOBOL shortly after release and will stay this way) but include multiple bug-fixes and some new features, see http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/gnucobol/#what-are-the-differences-between-opencobol-1-1-and-gnucobol-1-1 for a nearly complete list which still omits the details.

Please mark the package containing gnu-cobol-1.1 as stable as it is used in production and has no stability problems in.
 Thank you for your response,

Simon Sobisch

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