"Dead" npm package, how to handle...?

I found https://registry.npmjs.org/serverless-offline-aws-ssm which is exactly what we need for DEV development using “invoke local”.
Unfortunately the GitHub attached is “dead” and I have not been able to reach the author of it which also has published it on NPM…

It requires a minor fix that I have added to my GitHub: https://github.com/QAnders/serverless-offline-aws-ssm-local

I would however want to publish it onto NPM for it to be available at build time (for us and others) as we pull all public modules from NPM in the pipeline for new development images…

What would be the best approach here, just rename the package and publish a new one to NPM, or…?

Well, ended up creating a new NPM package and published it…