Hey,
nodens(nodens@debian.org) and me are currently packaging the new version of onionshare for Debian and stumbled over the dependency cepa[1], what is a fork of stem. After digging deeper into it, I found out, that the main reason why they do so is the support for Client Auth v3 onions[2]. I really would like not to package a fork of stem, if possible. That's why I ask, when it is planed to release a new version of stem? It hasn't seen any release since 2019 and there are a lot of changes in master branch too. Maybe you can just release the current state of the maint branch, that is actually what is released as cepa 1.8.3.
I some how need to solve this till January, when Debian is freezing (not accepting new versions).
Regards
hefee
[1] https://github.com/onionshare/cepa [2] https://github.com/torproject/stem/commit/ 2f3bbf64b4ce3b63160a3c56b15748ba626de4a0