In case you're curious, I'm still waiting for a response from the GNU people.
If I don't hear from them soon, I'll release 1.9 anyway and put it on a private FTP site. That way there will be a release for Noel to package for Debian and we can watch the fun as the bug reports start pouring. P.S. The question about the maintainership of the stable branch wasn't a joke. If someone wants to volunteer, please contact me.
