news at 2009 09 http://theora.org/news/
the library encoder decoder theora version 1.1 was rewritten. It is
"largely an improvement to the Theora encoder
<http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/09/theora-1-1-released/>"
this library is old in the repository arch
also, ffmpeg2theora, "A simple converter to create Ogg Theora files", is
a binary that (I know slightly) depends to the library is old in the
repository arch. ffmpeg2theora-0.25 'use new libtheora 1.1'
http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/index.html
I am inexperienced with package management, for example the maintainers
may know a conflicts or insecurity that is the reason to serve the old.
However, this news is relevant. I will continue to act as a reporter to
improve the quality of our community.
andrew
