I'm the Debian maintainer of zpaq. I'd like to explain why the zpaq
hasn't been updated since.

* Not having any manual pages.  the pages were hand written by me. 
  The pages are quite extensive in size and coverage.

* After 1.10 the zpaq infrastructure changed radically. 
   It was split into library part and client part.

It was not possible to upgrade to new versions as the manual pages and
all the source code very very much incompatible. It was not possible to
merge in changes. After every new release this divergency has increased.

The situation is comparable to apache1 and apache2: The Apache2 is a
rewrite and not upgradeable in source level.

I suggest that somebody opens a RFP (request for package) for "zpaq2" or
"zpaq-new" that is based on the  new infrastructure. The packager also
probably needs to start from scratch to e.g.  write the associated
manual pages.

There are no viable solutions or possibilities as far as I can see to
update 1.10 any further.

Possibly this bug might be marked as "wontfix" in Debian tag parlance.

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