The Debian archive seemingly has many packages that are hopelessly outdated by several upstream releases. While tracker.d.o/package does mention if a new upstream version has appeared, it doesn't e-mail the maintainer. IMHO, tracker should at least e-mail the maintainer or, preferably, all subscribers of a particular package's tracker.

Martin-Éric

Hello,

Ideally, bugs mentionning the new upstream releases are filed, that would
solve this issue.

Also at this point the tracker is not generating emails, it tends to relay
where appropriate mails generated by the respective services whose
information are collated together.

But I agree that this has been a long time shortcoming of our setup.
Still some maintainers objected to this based on the fact, that they
follow the respective upstream project and are aware of the release,
and notifications/bugs are noise.

So as usual, it would ideally require some opt-out mechanism. IOW, help
wanted as it's not a quick fix.

Cheers,

Hopefully the lack of such emails is not the main reason for having
hopelessly outdated packages, as new releases are easily seen on a
maintainer's DDPO page, which I would expect every active maintainer
to regularly visit.