Comment 8 for bug 490304

As discussed on IRC, here are some things I noted while reviewing:
* No code warning/errors during build, good!
* --disable-rpath should be dropped from rules
* Someone needs to subscribe to bug mail; perhaps the Debian maintainer is interested?

I agree the lack of testsuite is quite an issue here, also I think it would need at least a security review too.

Let's check with upstream whether we can avoid that one.