Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Toni Mueller wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 07:49:55PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

>> Potentially, yes. tzdata's debdiff tends not to end up as
>>
>>  83 files changed, 13318 insertions(+), 16724 deletions(-)
>>
>> though. :-(
>
> ok, so what do you suggest?
>
> I reckon that all tax calculating software should have this problem.

In theory, table-driven code or at least good modularity can be a way
to minimize the damage from changing facts of life on unrelated
aspects of a program's functionality.

In practice, isn't taxbird dead and therefore unlikely to change at
all in the future?  I think if we include it in wheezy, we should
include the newest packaged version.

Thanks,
Jonathan