This seems to be saying that the current release will be supported until
August 2012, which may mean it will hit wheezy, but become unsupported
before the release after that:

http://www.atheme.net/download-atheme.php

One way to handle this would be to keep the package from floating down
to wheezy if wheezy is released before August 2012. Backports could also
be used.

Note that upstream seems to have a 2 year release cycle, at least for
the 6.x series:

 * 7.x - first release jan 2011, no stable release, unclear when end of
   support
 * 6.x - first release july 2010, stable on dec 2010, supported until
   aug 2012
 * 5.2 - supported 3 months (!)
 * 4.0 and 3.0 - supported about a year, although all releases on those
   branches were done on the same day (!)

See http://git.atheme.org/atheme/refs/tags

So I think we should just package it, as it seems things have
improved. I am not sure that *upstream* have actually requested this
package to be removed in the first place anyways...

A.

-- 
Having failed to discover weapons of mass destruction, Washington
shifted its propaganda to "establishing democracy." That flatly refutes
their earlier claim that the "only question" was whether Saddam would
disarm. But with a sufficiently obedient intellectual class, and loyal
media, the farce can proceed untroubled.
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