My experience with other Debian packages is I report the bug using reportbug, and the Debian maintainers make the judgement as to whether to pass it on upstream. Most of the other bugs reported against this package look like they almost have to be upstream, not Debian, bugs, as well.
D. B. writes: >Why are you reporting this here? Upstream would be happy to hear >about it, but it's not Debian's problem (and nor is it serious enough >to warrant a distro-specific patch) -- Joe Pfeiffer http://pfeifferfamily.net/ 1440 Tierra del Sol Dr 575.525.2764 (H) Las Cruces, NM 88007-5548 575.496.3501 (C)