Comment 2 for bug 601125

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.