Removal of packages Beast and Rapicorn in 2014

[Tim Janik]

Hello all,

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/beast
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rapicorn

show that Beast and Rapicorn have been removed from Debian last year.

Reading up on the bug reports, it seems that:
a) It was assumed the packages are unmaintained upstream;
b) a guile-1.8 dependency of Beast was becoming a problem for Debain.

(a) is not true, Beast *and* Rapicorn have seen releases and active development in git last year:
https://github.com/tim-janik/rapicorn/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/tim-janik/beast/graphs/contributors

(b) was unknown to upstream, it would have been great if upstream was notified in any way to accommodate.

We're now in the process of rolling our own deb packages and apt repository, but ideally that effort would channel back
into Debian. Is there a way to find a sponsor for uploads of third-party packages who can provide packaging feedback,
or simply a Debian maintainer that bothers enough to actually notify upstream about packaging issues?

-- 
Yours sincerely,
Tim Janik

https://testbit.eu/timj/
Free software author and speaker.