Looking for help getting orphaned package rasdaemon updated

[Francis M <fmcbra@gmail.com>]

Hi there,

First time poster, long time subscriber.

Long story short, rasdaemon in Buster needs some love.  It's quite out of date,
the systemd unit as it exists in 0.6.0-1.2 isn't sufficient, and is frankly
unusable for some in its present state due to bugs in rasdaemon itself that have
been fixed a few upstream releases back.

I sent an e-mail to Al Stone (ahs3@d.o) who's listed as rasdaemon's maintainer
on packages.d.o and, after a confusing interraction with Debian's SMTP server
which responded to his address with "550 <US telelphone number>", I discovered
that his account has been retired...

Recently I've come to depend on rasdaemon, so in my e-mail to Al, I was hoping
to find out what I could do to get a working rasdaemon into testing and
eventually stable.  Seeing as he's apparently no longer active, I figured this
might be a good place to ask a broader audience the same question.

If I do all the dog work of cherry-picking and backporting patches from
upstream's git repo and handle necessary packaging tweaks, is there a mentor out
there who'd be willing to help me get a working version of rasdaemon uploaded?

It'd be nice if something could be sorted out regardless.  Unless I'm mistaken,
rasdaemon (when it works) is the only user-friendly way to watch systems for
MCEs since the mcelog package was removed.

So, any help or advice on what to do here would be really appreciated.

Best,
Francis