[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#631147: inline-octave: missing package libinline-octave-perl after update to current Debian/stable, but new upstream release found in CPAN

[Thomas Uhle]

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
>