Considering the very low update frequency from debian and the guidelines given here: http://<email address hidden>/msg256671.html it seemed good to me to give the package a full uplift, including the debhelper and standards-version bump. In my opinion the chance we would need to consider a merge or sync would be very low.
However, I have removed the lintian fixes and created the debdiff which only changes the CFLAGS setting to prevent a FTBFS with the latest dpkg.
Considering the very low update frequency from debian and the guidelines given here: http://<email address hidden> /msg256671. html it seemed good to me to give the package a full uplift, including the debhelper and standards-version bump. In my opinion the chance we would need to consider a merge or sync would be very low.
However, I have removed the lintian fixes and created the debdiff which only changes the CFLAGS setting to prevent a FTBFS with the latest dpkg.