To slime or not to slime

I have mutilated the slime package of Sean Champ with the current CVS HEAD of slime, changed the version number to something without epoch and I'm actually pretty happy with it.

The moral problem now is to upload it, or not. There is a dire need for slime in debian and the package seems to work correctly. The problem is that the packager seems unresponsive to email already for quite a while and I don't want to hijack his package. Should I just bite the bullet and upload or wait a little more... Sigh.

spring is here

Yesterday it was pretty variable weather, switching between rain and sun every 5 minutes, but still nature is going for growth: