I'd also be interested in an updated version of yaz in debian proper. Note that the folks who make yaz are packaging with debian in mind already, and even run their own apt repositories:
http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/yaz/debian/README Thanks for working on yaz, and for taking the time to keep it in debian. If there's some reason to not update to the newer versions of yaz, a note here would be helpful to those of us looking for it. Regards, --dkg
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