[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Old libmpdclient version in current MPD package (Unstable)

[voxx]

Hi

I'm developing an MPD client, and have come across a potential issue 
with 0.21.5-x from Unstable.

The current (and previous) package is compiled using libmpdclient-dev 
v2-11 (from here 
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=mpd&arch=amd64&ver=0.21.4-1%2Bb1&stamp=1547037223&raw=0).

Using such an old version of library precludes use of various facilities 
of MPD via a satellite configuration - such as regular expressions, 
assorted count commands, and so on. Is there any particular reason for 
this?

I notice that the BSD and Hurd libraries are stuck at 2.11 - is this why 
the i386/amd64/etc. MPD package is compiled against 2.11?

It would make MPD much more usable if it could be compiled against the 
most current version of the library (v2.16 at the moment), or at least 
the version supplied in the Unstable distribution.

Would it be possible to compile future MPD packages with the newest 
library?


Thanks

v