You should get rid of them to provide more metadata about this software.
Standards version of the package is outdated.
high
The package is severely out of date with respect to the Debian Policy.The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy
(Standards-Version 4.4.1 instead of
3.9.3).
vcswatch reports that
this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version
0.9.3-5, distribution
UNRELEASED) and new commits
in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make
an upload.
Depends on packages which need a new maintainer
normal
The packages that pavumeter depends on which need a new maintainer are:
![[bug history graph]](https://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/p/pavumeter.png){kind=link}