Now that I'm on my brand new cable connection, I can upload packages with 1Mbit/s - a vast improvement which allows me to keep the E17 Debian repository up to date more frequently than during the last four months.
The new packages include the E17 NetworkManager client (exalt) and its control module (emodule-exalt). Thanks to exchange the E17 user can now download and install themes right from the desktop shell.
At this point I'd like to thank Daniel (aka Quaker) for updating and adding Debian files in the E17 svn tree.