Sorry to be a bother Ron, but you can't close the bug until it's fixed ON DEBIAN.
From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer : "Problems in packages can only be considered fixed once a package that includes the bug fix enters the Debian archive." What you *can* do is tag it with the "fixed-upstream" tag. Specially since it was "fixed upstream" more than 4 months ago, but not only there are no .debs yet, we don't even know when there will be one -- so it's really deceptive to close the bug. best, Lalo Martins (former DD)
