I demand that Arturo Martinez may or may not have written...

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It looks like the author is no longer maintaining the plugin.

Which leads me to a question... Has anybody thought of keeping a repository of plugins that the author himself no longer seems to maintain and try to keep a patched version available so that it compiles on modern systems?

I guess the e-tobi .deb packages could manage that by having the compile-fixes as a patch in debian/patches/

But that would only be for debian based systems, I use Archlinux for my HTPC and I need source code tar balls.

Hmm? You would have that: .orig.tar.gz, either .diff.gz or .debian.tar.gz, and .dsc (which you wouldn't need).