>Would it be possible to have someone look over the changes I've made >and/or make suggestions as to how I could get these changes incorporated >into Debian?
it is usually better to open wishlist bugs for improvements (with patches) and then in case open an RFS bug. Looks the new release is already uploaded, not sure if anything is still missing from your packaging wrt the upload one, feel free to contact the maintainers again in case or open bugs. G.