The (original) problem is: for mature apps, it's often not just an apt / .deb that needs publishing. It's also a RPMs, Arch AURs, Gentoo err things (let alone

The (original) problem is: for mature apps, it's often not just an apt / .deb that needs publishing. It's also a RPMs, Arch AURs, Gentoo err things (let alone *BSD systems), and various flavours of repos / interfaces with packagers / downstream systems and release cycles...