What do you mean by "needs updating"? And with packages, I disagree. I only use Debian (and have used Red Hat some time ago), so it would be quite troublesome

What do you mean by "needs updating"? And with packages, I disagree. I only use Debian (and have used Red Hat some time ago), so it would be quite troublesome for me to provide package build scripts for anything else. I wouldn't expect any developer to provide packaging for the whole variety of distributions and OSes. But providing a sane build process is enough for anybody to build a package for their OS.