[Python-modules-team] web2py package outdated (even in sid)

[Jakub Wilk]

* Mike Lumsden <mike_lumsden at hotmail.com>, 2013-05-23, 18:34:
>The package I am concerned about is "web2py", and according to 
>Synaptic, it comes directly from Debian (unpatched by Ubuntu or Mint). 
>The version in the Debian stable, testing, and unstable repositories is 
>"1.99.7-1". The current version is 
>"2.4.6-stable+timestamp.2013.04.06.17.37.38", taken from the web2py 
>website. The experimental repository doesn't feature the web2py package 
>at all. Please can this be packaged and put into a repository 
>(presumably unstable or experimental?) I would do it myself, but I 
>haven't ever created a Debian package, and wouldn't like to make a 
>mistake and submit an incorrect package!
>
>Please let me know if I should re-direct this query somewhere else.

You might have better luck asking the (human) maintainer directly:
José L. Redrejo Rodríguez <jredrejo at debian.org>

Anyway, there's already an open bug about packaging newer version of 
web2py: http://bugs.debian.org/689658

-- 
Jakub Wilk