ubuntu 16.10 packet sources still have 0.7.4

[Kay F. Jahnke]

Am 29.11.2016 um 09:53 schrieb Matthias Kretz:
> 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.

To conclude: Ubuntu 17.04 now has an up-to-date vc-dev package, so it 
seems my nagging was successful. But I wouldn't bet on the package being 
updated to a newer version for the next release - unless someone 
actively persues this.

With regards
Kay F. Jahnke