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

[Thomas Uhle]

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