Since the package in the main repository doesn't work at all, just taking the package from this PPA and putting it into the main repository would be a huge improvement.
I'm a long-time Shutter user, and I've been running this PPA package since 02-08-2016 on Ubuntu 16.04 without any issues.
I've been running shutter via this PPA successfully:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shutter/ppa ; sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install shutter
Since the package in the main repository doesn't work at all, just taking the package from this PPA and putting it into the main repository would be a huge improvement.
I'm a long-time Shutter user, and I've been running this PPA package since 02-08-2016 on Ubuntu 16.04 without any issues.