why is an old PSPP version present in ubuntu repository?

[dr soumalya ray]

hi,

a very old version (0.7.9) of PSPP, the statistical software, is present in the 
ubuntu 14.04 repository. the present stable version is 0.8.3 (released on 25th 
April, 2014); the earlier version is 0.8.2 (released on 14th January 2014).

as the feature freeze date for trusty was on 20th February, 2014, should it at 
least not include 0.8.2 version of PSPP instead of 0.7.9 in the repository?

why does the present long term stable release of ubuntu contain such an old 
version of the software? 


any idea about this will be appreciated. 


regards,

som

PS: i have sent this question to the ubuntu users mailing list as well.