Yes. I understand. "Debian" appears to be the nominal owner of the package, though no one at debian or anywhere else is maintaining it. In such circumstances, Ubuntu release teams sometimes elect to fix and distribute their own packages. No work has been done on this package since at least 2008, and that's an eternity.
I don't believe my changes, properly conditionalized, introduce portability changes. Many compilers and/or implementation libraries have functions to convert among endian byte orders, or at least to fetch serially ordered bytes in multiples of 2,4 or 8 from byte streams and assemble them into words and double words. That's the only change I identify as having portability implications. This package is fundamentally a GNU/ C/Linux program. To whatever extent an upgrade would enable some subset of the existing user base to enjoy increased feature content, reliability and currectness, that is a plus. Right now, this package is dead. -- code maintainability, modularity and readability issues https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601125 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
