The version installable thru Debian/Ubuntu `apt` tool is old

[Antoine2711]

If I use apt on Debian, I get a very old version of OpenRefine, compared with brew, on Mac, which gives me the latest.

$ sudo apt info openrefine
Package: openrefine
Version: 3.7.7-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/java
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Who is the person who help set it up in place? I'd like to ask him some questions on GitHub.

Regards, Antoine

[thadguidry]

See:

State of OpenRefine's packaging

Today I discovered Repology, a pretty awesome tool to keep track of which version of OpenRefine is packaged in many software repositories. They can also generate a “badge” which summarizes it (excluding outdated linux distrubutions): [Packaging status] It could be interesting to try to understand how those packages are maintained and whether we can do anything to help update them when a new version is released (although there is also an interest in keeping the releasing process simple on our …

[thadguidry]

You'd typically email that mailing list Ubuntu Developers (where he and others would help) - I know this feels indirect and you want one person, but like all open source, it's teamwork that actually makes things happen.