Incorporate and acknowledge the changes from the non maintainer upload.
Lintian reports 10 warnings
about this package. You should make the package lintian clean
getting rid of them.
The package should be updated to follow the last version of
Debian Policy (Standards-Version
4.6.2 instead of
3.9.6).
This package has "Depends: sendmail"
while sendmail
needs a new maintainer, see
O #740070.
problems
The package is severely out of date with respect to the Debian
Policy. Latest version is 4.6.2
and your package only follows
3.9.6...
There were override disparities found in suite unstable:
gross: Override says mail - optional, .deb says mail - extra
The package has a debian/watch file, but the last attempt
to use it for checking for newer upstream versions failed with
an error:
In debian/watch no matching files for watch line http://code.google.com/p/gross/downloads/detail[?]name=gross-([0-9.]+).tar.gz&.*
testing migration
This package will soon be part of the auto-c-ares transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it.
You can probably find supplementary information in the
debian-release
archives or in the corresponding
release.debian.org
bug.