Comment 3 for bug 283142

Yes, version 2.8.6 has been out for at least two years. It uses a different license, though (CeCILL), and it's unclear whether it's CeCILL v1 or CeCILL v2. When asked about this, upstream simply pointed out that the current development branch is back under GPL (v3 this time) "because the codebase included GPL code fragments" (translation mine). On 2011-10-07, upstream stated the intention to update the download site "within the coming month". I'd suggest waiting a while longer before packaging 2.8.6 or a newer stable release. (I've actually done some of the work already, it builds but it still needs testing and various cleanups.)

Note that the Debian package hasn't been updated since 2006. The maintainer discussed an upload of 2.5.0 in April 2007; I couldn't find any signs of later activity. The package hasn't formally been orphaned, but it probably should have been.