SourceHut maintains actual package repositories based on standard package managers, most of which are overseen by independent contributors. The Debian packages

SourceHut maintains actual package repositories based on standard package managers, most of which are overseen by independent contributors. The Debian packages are maintained by Denis Laxalde, who is a volunteer with no relationship to SourceHut. This approach enjoys most of the same benefits as using upstream packages does - contrast this with, for example, shipping a bunch of Docker images. SourceHut is under heavy development and shipping multiple releases per day during busy weeks, and the workload of keeping up with it downstream is quite large. NixOS is working on it, but few other distros are brave enough to try. Once we ship 1.0 then it will make a lot more sense for distros to start maintaining their own packages for it, and their job will be made easier given that they can start by copy/pasting the interim package manifests maintained by these SourceHut-specific teams. On the whole I would argue that I'm walking the walk here.