Generally in the FTP Team we trust maintainer's judgement when it comes to deciding if a package should be removed rather than orphaned and left to rot.
I looked and it's been about 5 years since anyone other than Chris has uploaded the package and he's the only human maintainer. It is both a feature and a bug that in Debian, we're all volunteers and can choose how we volunteer. I don't see anyone volunteering to step up and take over, so in the end, the maintainer's judgement is what has to control. Scott K
