please do try to keep this package from being dropped i am the upstream maintainer and i have been trying for about 18 months to contact debian user piem about this package; and working with the MIA team for over a year - the upstream repo is is good shape with up-to-date autotools, with the current debian patches applied, and several other bug fixes
starting in october, there is set to be a new package salvaging procedure in place and i was advised by tobias on the MIA team that i could start the procedure for adopting the package at that time