I demand that Tony Houghton may or may not have written...
Even if the original authors won't accept the usefulness of the suspend feature, please could you consider adding Marko Makela's suspend patch to your Debian package. I found it applied OK manually to 1.3.39-1 despite some offsets.
The suspend patch is useful to the point of being essential for us softdevice users. [...]
Applied, but I'm currently waiting on the next vdr-xine release (assuming that there's not much delaying it now) before I upload 1.3.40.