Almost I did a NMU. Attached the nmu diff patch for it.
I hope this update to bugreport #852963
will trigger some reaction.
diff -Nru git-sh-1.1/debian/changelog git-sh-1.1/debian/changelog
--- git-sh-1.1/debian/changelog 2011-03-06 22:30:05.0 +0100
+++ git-sh-1.1/debian/changelog 2017-06-03 22:50:07.0 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+git-sh (1.1-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Mentions /usr/bin/git-shell in description. Closes: #852963
+ * First upload in more then six years.
+- Standards-Version from 3.9.1 to 3.9.8, no changes needed
+- Build-Depends on debhelper, it is version 10.x.y. these days
+- compat: version from 7 to 9
+- watch: deprecated githubredir replace with working content
+ this revealed that upstream has a new version for four years
+
+ -- Geert Stappers Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:50:07 +0200
+
git-sh (1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial release (Closes: #590440)
diff -Nru git-sh-1.1/debian/compat git-sh-1.1/debian/compat
--- git-sh-1.1/debian/compat 2011-03-06 21:02:29.0 +0100
+++ git-sh-1.1/debian/compat 2017-06-03 21:58:45.0 +0200
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7
+9
diff -Nru git-sh-1.1/debian/control git-sh-1.1/debian/control
--- git-sh-1.1/debian/control 2011-03-06 22:30:05.0 +0100
+++ git-sh-1.1/debian/control 2017-06-03 22:36:06.0 +0200
@@ -2,15 +2,18 @@
Maintainer: Alex Morega
Section: vcs
Priority: optional
-Standards-Version: 3.9.1
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.3.8)
+Standards-Version: 3.9.8
+Build-Depends: debhelper
Homepage: http://rtomayko.github.com/git-sh/
Package: git-sh
Architecture: all
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, git
-Description: a git shell
+Description: customized bash environment suitable for git work
git-sh starts an interactive bash(1) session modified for git-heavy
workflows. Typical usage is to change into the directory of a git work
tree or bare repository and run the git-sh command to start an interactive
shell session.
+ .
+ Not be confused with /usr/bin/git-shell for restricting SSH users.
+ /usr/bin/git-shell is in the default git package.
diff -Nru git-sh-1.1/debian/watch git-sh-1.1/debian/watch
--- git-sh-1.1/debian/watch 2011-03-06 22:30:05.0 +0100
+++ git-sh-1.1/debian/watch 2017-06-03 22:13:36.0 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
-# Compulsory line, this is a version 3 file
-version=3
+# Compulsory line, this is a uscan version 4 watch file
+version=4
# github repository
-http://githubredir.debian.net/github/rtomayko/git-sh/ (.*)\.tar\.gz
+opts="filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz%git-sh-$1.tar.gz%" \
+https://github.com/rtomayko/git-sh/tags \
+(?:.*?/)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
+
+# l l