Sorry to follow this up, just thought I would mention that upgrading to 16.08.1 is rather straightforward. It suffices to download the upstream sources and keep the debian folder in the build root from 16.04.2. You will only need to correct the "libcantorlibs" path in the cantor.install file:
Replace usr/lib/*/libcantorlibs.so.0.* and usr/lib/*/libcantorlibs.so.6 with usr/lib/*libcantorlibs.so.16 and usr/lib/*/libcantorlibs.so.16.08.1 It then builds for me on a stretch system without any issues, no additional bugfixing required. Best regards T2
