Yes, I got tired of jumping through the hoops. Debian suffers from a common problem with FOSS projects, where project members can do whatever they want but contributors keep getting conflicting demands from various project members, resulting in delayed uploads and lots of extra work.
For what it's worth, Mussh itself is maintained; it is mature software and just does not need many updates. The workload for any Debian developer who would like to pick it up should be near zero. Otherwise, we will just go back to maintaining our own internal Debian package of Mussh like we were before I submitted it to Debian. Best of Luck, -Jacob
