As for timeframe into when 1.0 will be in... I have no idea. It's suprisingly not even in Unstable yet...
The maintainer has 1.0 on his private repository presently and is working on getting it into unstable soon. Ah, here's the message:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/12/msg02419.html
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