KBibTeX in Debian: even unstable/experimental is outdated

[roucaries bastien]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Thomas Fischer
<fischer at unix-ag.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am the maintainer of KBibTeX, a BibTeX editor for KDE. KBibTeX
> has been shipped for Debian since version 0.1.5 back in 2006
> thanks to Michael Hanke.
> Unfortunately, the package for KBibTeX in Debian has not been
> updated in a few years, the most recent package is from December
> 2012. This version (0.4) is no longer maintained by upstream
> (me). Since 2012, a number of more recent versions have been
> released (0.5.x and 0.6).
>
> Whenever I receive bug reports for version 0.4, I usually ask
> bug reporters to test the current stable version (0.6 right now)
> to verify if the bug has been fixed. Unfortunately, many bug
> reporters do no have the skills to install KBibTeX from source
> themselves.
> For example, see here:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330861
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357883
>
> It would be nice and very helpful to trace/close bug reports if
> Debian would provide up-to-date packages for 'normal' users.
> The current stable version is still written for KDE4,
> dependencies have little if at all changed since 0.4.
> Essentially, just the version counter has to be increased before
> rebuilding/packaging KBibTeX.
>
> Looking forward to your feedback!


I have packaged a newer version but found non free file. Thus
reporting. I plan to readd soon
> Bye,
> Thomas Fischer