Please forgive me if I step in to give my two cents. As others have already observed, if upstream doesn't want to collaborate, there's always the option of forking. That would be a more desirable outcome than removal from Debian -- as I understand it, the program does perform a useful function.
May I suggest that you direct your effort to setting up a forked version with all the offending names removed? I guess that if you did that from the beginning, it might be already done by now and might have costed less time, work and stress to you and to everybody else. You know Debian is a do-ocracy: doing it yourself is always more effective than trying to coerce someone else into doing something. I would say that if you really care about solving this issue for good, that's what you should be doing. Cc:ing the maintainer: if Ian sets up the fork, would you be willing to replace the original version with it? Gerardo
