How to adopt a package

Hi! I want to adopt a package (zile). It's listed as orphaned in the wnpp. I already mailed to wnpp and the former maintainer a bit more than a week ago (just after the last update of the wnpp on the web, it seems), but got no reactions. The former maintainer orphaned it in January 1999 (see http:

Re: How to adopt a package

> If it's orphaned according to WNPP, all you have to do is email WNPP > saying you adopt it, and then upload a new version. > > > Now, I surely can't just upload the package pretending to be the new > > maintainer? > > Actually, you can. Modify debian/control to list yourself as the > maintaine