It now has been more than two months since the last reply by anyone.
PLEASE, is there anything I can to to push this through? It can not be
that hard!
Problem: The package is completely broken and unusable.
History:
* 2017/11/15: First mention of this issue in my post to
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863530
* 2017/12/01: I submitted a patch for the problem to #863530
* 2018/01/02: This issue was opened to fix the problem against
release.debian.org
It now has been 6 and 1/2 months since the patch was initially submitted.