Bug#986739: is it possible to package new upstream "snapshot" ?

[Sébastien Noel]

Package: src:dolphin-emu
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The current dolphin-emu packages lacks almost 5 years of upstream 
improvements.
I know that technically there isn't any new upstream release,
but my feeling is that this is getting ridiculous.

The current package has lots of bugs regarding the usage of a real 
wiimote,
lots of games are unplayable, the GUI is antique
(upstream switched to QT5 3 years ago), etc...
Current documentation and user expectations are way out of line
with the state of the official debian package stuck at the 5.0 release.

If you agree with me that an update is welcome, I'm not coming empty 
handed,
I did my homework, I can share my current progress,
but I struggled on 2 points:
* some embedded libs (FreeSurround, minizip, ...) are more up2date
   in the tarball than the debian packaged version, so I used the bundled 
one
* updating the d/copyright file is a real pain
This is clearly not "release material" but it's a start:
https://twolife.be/debian/pool/main/d/dolphin-emu/

Thanks for reading up to this point.

Best Regards,
Sébastien