Public bug reported:

Please update testdisk package to new upstream 7.x release (7.1 now is
the latest, it seems).

In testdisk 7.0 developers added GUI tool - QPhotoRec and because of this 
Testdisk package must be split at least in 3 binary packages: PhotoRec, 
QPhotoRec and Testdisk
QPhotoRec is a Graphical User Interface (Qt based GUI) version of PhotoRec. 
More user friendly, it recognizes the same file formats.

See https://launchpad.net/bugs/262943 and
http://cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_7.0_Release#PhotoRec_.26_QPhotoRec
for more info

I'm pasting TestDisk 7.0 Release notes:

Various fix including security fix, thanks to
    Coverity scan (Static Analysis of source code)
    afl-fuzz (security-oriented fuzzer).
    Denis Andzakovic from Security Assessment for reporting an exploitable 
Stack Buffer Overflow

TestDisk
Improvements
    exFAT: better support
    ext4: handle 64 bit blocks or 64 KiB blocksize. Fix detection and file 
listing
Bug fixes
    Avoid erroneous error when writing 512 bytes on hard disk using 4k sector
    FAT, NTFS: avoid NULL pointer dereference if localtime() returns NULL. 
Thanks to Graham Sutherland for reporting this bug.

PhotoRec & QPhotoRec

QPhotoRec is a Graphical User Interface (Qt based GUI) version of PhotoRec. 
More user friendly, it recognizes the same file formats.
PhotoRec remains recommended for advanced users, it can stop a recovery and 
resume it later, it recovers more fragmented files when brute-force technology 
is enabled and expert mode is available.
Improvements
    Reduced false positives for more than 80 file formats.
    .gif: fix filesize detection
    .flv: add Flash filesize detection
    .mpg: detect filesize for MPEG
    .ra: detect filesize for RealAudio3
    Improved algorithm to deal with data fragmentation resulting in a general 
speed increased
    Speedup brute-force mode. Brute-force mode can recover more fragmented 
files, but it's still slow and not 100% reliable. You can enable it in PhotoRec 
Options menu.

New file formats recovered by PhotoRec:
    .3dm: Rhino / openNURBS
    .ari: ARRI Raw Video
    .camrec: Camtasia Studio
    .dad: Micae DVR
    .dcm: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
    .fp12: File Maker Pro 12
    .kra: Krita
    .mlv: Magic Lantern Video
    .notebook: SMART notebook
    .ora: Mypaint
    .red: RED2 video format
    .rlv: Revelation password
    .vbm: Veeam Backup Metadata
    .woff: Web Open Font Format

** Affects: testdisk (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: testdisk (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #787455
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787455

** Also affects: testdisk (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787455
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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