Hi Henning, since it would be great to fix #805824 soon which seems pretty easy considering the patch I would like to offer an NMU. However, it would be even more sensible to move the package under Debian Science team maintenance and maintain it in Debian Science Git since it is part of several Debian Science tasks (astronomy, numericalcomputation and viewing). If I do not hear anything from you until end of this week I would go on to move pdl in Debian Science Git, add you as Uploader and do a team upload (rather than an NMU).
What do you think? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de