Dear Lucas,
Not the worst of ideas, but it might be useful to keep in mind that the reason I use the 1.0 source format is to be able to wrap up debian packages directly from the upstream repository without releasing upstream tarballs. The 3.0 (quilt) format is not suitable for this. It should be possible to do also with newer formats, I believe, but I have not looked at how to do it. The upstream git repo was on alioth, and the archived git package need to be moved to salsa to continue development. The code really is feature complete, as far as I am concerned, so I do not expect much development will take place. After all, it has been unchanged since 2014 for a reason. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen