Comment 1 for bug 897790

I appreciate that (A) this causes a delta with Debian and (B) this is a feature missing from Ubuntu.

But on the other hand, I'm not sure (1) how well maintained it would be from an Ubuntu perspective, (2) what the security issues are here, and (3) how useful this would be to how many people.

If someone wanted to step up and take care of this package in Ubuntu, I'd like to see them:
 * subscribe to Ubuntu bugs
 * fix the packaging to run tests (and fix the tests to all pass -- I get 4 failures right now)
 * fix the packaging to ship a .symbols file instead of passing a hardcoded version to dh_makeshlibs
 * ideally, get the above changes into Debian

If that were done, we can pass this on to the Ubuntu security team for a security review.