Modern C Porting

And if upstream is effectively dead, which is the impression I get, you're basically saying to other distros "we're happy to be the new upstream, for bugfixes etc, unless/until the old upstream wakes up".

What's the point of a dead upstream? How much *extra* effort is it for a distro maintainer to to take over package maintenance, if all they're doing is fixing things like those compiler problems? Then you shouldn't get problems because all distros should be marching to the same beat.

Cheers,
Wol