Using the amazing http://codesearch.debian.net one finds that levmar is included in rather many source packages in Debian:
freemat: levmar-2.3 hugin: some older version, probably patched meshlab: levmar-2.3 sextractor: levmar-2.3 starlink-ast: parts of some older version from 2004 stimfit: levmar-2.5 (teem: can be linked with levmar, but apparently is not) Since most of the packages above are maintained by Debian Science, is there anyone who would want to take on a simple library package? All included code is from an older version than the latest levmar-2.6, so making levmar useful in Debian would require a considerable amount of forward porting and fixing of upstream sources. On the other hand, having the same code in six source packages is already a pretty bad case of duplication. Best, Teemu