Who should I inform/contact when an apt package is out-of-date

Hi all,

Today I installed libgmail using apt-get:

sudo apt-get install python-libgmail

Installed fine, no problem up till now. However, when I tried one of the examples from the documentation, I ran into a bug. Googeling around a bit, I found that a fix for that bug had been introduced in version 0.1.6 of the software.

I then checked which version apt-get had installed, and saw it was version 0.1.5.1 of libgmail from Augustus 2006.

I solved my immediate problem by patching my libgmail.py to the newest version (version 0.1.8 from November 2007) that I downloaded from the project website (http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/):

diff -u /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libgmail.py ~/libgmail-0.1.8/libgmail.py > libgmail-patch
sudo patch -p0 < libgmail-patch

But now I have 2 questions:

1) What is the correct procedure/ who should I inform or contact to let them know that the package python-libgmail is outdated: that a version 0.1.8 already exists but that version 0.1.5.1 is still installed.

2) apt-get probably still thinks I have installed version 0.1.5.1 of the package. Won't that give cause for trouble in the future when apt tries to update the package?