ubuntu 16.10 packet sources still have 0.7.4

[Kay F. Jahnke]

On 29.11.2016 09:53, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> On Dienstag, 29. November 2016 09:08:15 CET Kay F. Jahnke wrote:
>> I started out asking:
>>
>> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vc/+question/404456
>>
>> Then I found there was a bug report already:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vc/+bug/1629881
>>
>> I hope this will help getting a recent version of Vc into 17.04 at least.
>
> Thanks for taking this on. It might be a good idea to ask the package
> maintainer directly. It might well be that the package is unmaintained.

On http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/libdevel/vc-dev

they say to ask a question or file a bug first before contacting the 
maintainer. I did both and I'll give it a bit of time to see if anything 
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and/or to the person most active in the changelog

http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/v/vc/vc_0.7.4-0ubuntu1/changelog

Kay