I can volunteer to upload a new version within a few days/weeks, if everybody is happy with that, if the changes needed from the packaging side are not too many and specially if there are no nasty/boring license issues to solve by this new version :-)
MakeHuman is very much not the same software now as it was four years ago. It's an entirely different code branch.
Alpha 6 had a compiled c++ core which linked to python fragments. The current stable version is pure python. Pretty much all the libraries it depended on has changed.
The build routine we have now involves building binary versions of graphical assets stored as ascii descriptions. This is done with custom scripts.
The old license was GPL. The new license is AGPL with a special provision granting the use of certain assets under Creative Commons Zero.
Without having looked at the old build routine, I'm guessing it'd have to be modified quite a lot.
I don't know much about packaging Python applications in Debian, so I am not sure about how much of a problem this is. If anybody knows, please comment. Also, are there any plans from the Makehuman project to port it to Python 3 (or 2 and 3) in the near future?
We are unable to switch to python 3 since one of the hard dependencies is only available for python 2.7 on windows (or was the last time I checked. Admittedly this was a while ago)
Anyway, I'll check back with the team to see if someone is able/willing to pick up the build maintenance.