I've been trying to keep up to date, but since 0.06 the dependency nightmare was too much so I decided to join pkg-perl Debian team, which is already working on packaging Padre, in order to not make most of my work a waste of time.
Working with Debian people will make updates for Ubuntu smoother, since most of the dependency work is already available on Debian Lenny, so I will only have to backport it to Ubuntu Hardy.
BTW, I'm glad to see that my packages are actually been used; this really commits my interest in keeping the packages up to date, so stay tunned. Thanks!