Debian packages out of date

[thezim]

Many Debian packages are pretty out of date. How can we get them updated? Is this something I can seek or is this on maintainer if they so desire?

[hartkopp]

The Debian Maintainer is @gerasiov

I tried to ping him several times but got no reply.

Even not via Debian bugtracker:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998877

¯\(ツ)/¯

I hope he is still fine.