Package: libextractor Severity: important
For reasons unknown to me, libextractor is still on an ancient version prior to out-of-process execution and with the older API in Debian stable/testing/unstable. Most applications that I'm aware of have been modified to use the new API, so they can and should also be updated once libextractor is updated. A reasonably up-to-date version is only in experimental. The current 0.6.x-series is at least as stable as the 0.5.x-series, and I'm not aware of any Debian package that requires the older version (and if so, they should be updated to use the new API). Thus there should be no good technical reason for Debian to stay with 0.5.x. I'm filing this report as the upstream GNU maintainer, so I believe I know what I'm talking about ;-). -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
