Same time I complained about not up to date xcache package, I wrote to current maintainer whether I can adopt it. As he promptly agreed to this, we now have up to date package in Debian archives.
The only thing I messed down is that I did upload in hurry and didn't check which all bugs I can close by it. Today it turned out that all opened bugs could be closed, so I made another upload just to close those bugs ;-).