Helmut Geyer is listed as the maintainer for xxgdb and bzip - xxgdb hasn't had a maintainer upload since when bo was frozen, and bzip's last maintainer upload was longer ago than that. Mail sent to his listed address goes unanswered, but maybe that's because I only waited a week. Is he still with us?
Helmut, are you out there? This is being CC:'ed to Martin Mitchell in the vague hope that he has contacted Helmut more recently than summer of 1997, as he did the last NMUs of both xxgdb and bzip.