Would you like to co-maintain? The packaging repo is a fossil repo (of course) see debian/README.Debian so if you do co-maintain you can either make you own and we can sync, or we can try to tickle the linux ACLs on the fossil repo database (it's on a debian server) to give you write access. I'd welcome help, since I have not really been using fossil much lately so I have not been driven to update the debian package.
To get to the particular points you raise: - been meaning to package the latest version - upstream copyright must have shifted, will try to fix it. ... Ooops, I was in the middle of finishing this when I got email that you already did an upload. Excellent, thank you! Will merge your mods into the packaging repo. And naturally the above still stands. --Barak.