You guys are getting more and more bureaucratic. That's sad. The package maintainer is a volunteer, and he knows you are also a developer. That said, why don't you report the bug directly to the upstream, instead of insisting on this (bureaucratic) procedure of reporting bugs to debian then waiting that debian developer to forward upstream while both of you debian developers are pretty sure it's an upstream issue? I agree that if you're a noname random clueless mere user then the package maintainer shouldn't just close this usibility bug blindly.
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