According to the upstream changelog for Text-BibTeX, there won't be any more separate releases for libbtparse source. The C library source is shipped with Text-BibTeX now, and built using perl build tools. It has a non-versioned soname, so it isn't really suitable for /usr/lib as is, but that can be fixed. There are a few ways forward: 1) we can leave the increasingly stale libbtarse0 package in the archive, and install the embedded copy in Text-BibTeX in some private location. This would be kind to users of btparse, but I don't know how many of those there other than libtext-bibtex-perl; there are no rdepends and the popcon graphs look suspiciously similar. 2) We can remove src:libbtparse, and install the embedded copy in a private location. This will probably require add and rpath or something similar. 3) We can remove src:libbtparse, but generate a libparse$SOVERSION and libbtarse-dev binary packages from the libtext-bibtex-perl source package. This will also require a little bit of hacking to add a sensible soname, but it shouldn't be too bad. Do you have any other ideas? Are you interested in working with the debian perl group on options 2 or 3? All the best, David
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