Today I just managed to work a bit on setuid.c (ssh to college + fakeroot), but it's still deadlocking, though maybe not for the same reason the version in the repo does (no git here:-/). Plan for tomorrow is burning a Debian live CD, and creating a script that will automatically install what I need to work on cluts where I am now (not the sea, heh), and then fixing setuid and starting rewriting alloc.c. Anyway, I'll keep you posted.
Luka.