Hi Pascal: I believe that you mean to orphan the package "ipe", right? Normally, that means the wnpp bug would be titled "ITO ...", not "ITA...".
As I've mentioned in private email in the past, I'm willing to maintain ipe. I've not uploaded anything yet simply because the version of freetype in debian had a debilitating bug. However, I just noticed that freetype has an upload that claims to fix that. So I'm preparing an upload of ipe. Consider this message an official intention to adopt ipe *on my part*. (Thus, no need to re-title the bug). Cheers, -Steve