Matthew> Yes, that does look pretty unpleasant. I don't know what's going on with Matthew> Federico, there are other major bugs in there, too. Matthew> If he hasn't surfaced in the next few days, I'll whip up an NMU to fix up Matthew> the problems, probably upgrading to the latest upstream while I'm at it.
Indeed, upgrading to the latest upstream would be super too! That simple step is what one could never get previous maintainers to do. I.e. you might as well become the new maintainer.