I looked at this as well, it looks like it probably would benefit from preparing the 0.2.3 release instead of patching things. I haven't looked very closely, but it seems as though the patches may already be included in uptream git (and thus in 0.2.3, which seems to be the latest revision on git://linux-nfs.org/~steved/rpcbind, which is the correct upstream branch if I'm to believe the sourceforge link set as homepage in the package). If they aren't, then they probably wouldn't apply cleanly anyway.
I would suggest discussing the update with Debian; from there we could merge the package to the latest version.
I looked at this as well, it looks like it probably would benefit from preparing the 0.2.3 release instead of patching things. I haven't looked very closely, but it seems as though the patches may already be included in uptream git (and thus in 0.2.3, which seems to be the latest revision on git://linux- nfs.org/ ~steved/ rpcbind, which is the correct upstream branch if I'm to believe the sourceforge link set as homepage in the package). If they aren't, then they probably wouldn't apply cleanly anyway.
I would suggest discussing the update with Debian; from there we could merge the package to the latest version.