Package: libpano12 Version: 2.7.0.9-1 Severity: serious As has been pointed out multiple times in the ITP (obviously noone read it...) for panotools (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251617), the original author of panotools/libpano, Helmut Dersch has been forced by patent lawsuits to abandon the program. Part of the story can be obtained here: http://vr.albury.net.au/%7Ekathyw/EyePics/ipix.html or by googling around ("panotools patent").
The situation seems to be analogue to the one around the mp3 encoders (lame.... see the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/06/msg01213.html) If that is correct, we can't have panotools/libpano in debian, not even non-free. Robert. -- Rincewind formed a mental picture of some strange entity living in a castle made of teeth. It was the kind of mental picture you tried to forget. Unsuccessfully. -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"