Hi, I was looking at this FTBFS in Ubuntu and noticed that upstream has migrated to github, away from bitbucket. You can see a link from the current upstream page to pypi and then land on github. It is not the same person though but both of them are listed on the pypi page.
I'm going to email the original author and ask for some clarifications. Anyway, upstream doesn't seem to have the same FTBFS. Please note that I didn't try to update the package and I can't tell how much work this needs but updating looks like the better path for maintenance. -- Adrien