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Debian is almost like a trusted retail shop. They mediate between you (the producer of the software) and me (the consumer of the software). The quality control
by kzrdude 5y ago
Debian is almost like a trusted retail shop. They mediate between you (the producer of the software) and me (the consumer of the software). The quality control they are responsible for, does make them a trusted "shop" for the users - for example, one believes that using debian packages protects from malware.
It's natural the user cares more about this system than the producer - for the producer it looks like hassle and a middleman.
(Sidenote: Sometimes I'm the producer side of debian packages too.)
- da39a3ee 5y ago> Sometimes I'm the producer side of debian packages too. But my point is there's no such thing as creating a "debian package" from the producer side. We create software to be used on certain operating systems; perhaps only unix-like OSs. But we don't produce software "for debian".
- account42 5y ago> But we don't produce software "for debian". Most don't, but you can provide a debian repository for your software, e.g. if you care about debian users having newer versions available.