Hi John, thanks for the report. I had a look at it and it really seems mostly just a safe maintenance update.
We already have the new dependencies and are not affected by the deprecation of some xml libs. It seems the former grpc issue is fixed, I was able to drop that and it LGTM so far. I imported the new version to git, updates upstream/pristine-tar branches and I'm currently test building the new version to check that out. -- Christian Ehrhardt Director of Engineering, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd
