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That clears it up mostly, I think. Thanks! How do other software creators deal with this problem? I can see how getting reports for issues could be frustrating

• rsstack 4y ago
  I think it's a complicated question to answer because there are so many possible combinations. 1. Simpler software doesn't usually have issues with broken installers. 2. A lot of software doesn't get frequent-enough updates that old versions would matter. 3. High-profile projects usually have personal connections with the major distributions' packaging team (or even a "personal union", where it's actually the same people). And there are other cases. I think Bottles got stuck in a spot where their software is _very_ complicated to install correctly, updates often (young project + interactions with 3rd party software such as games), and they're a small team that doesn't have a way to work efficiently with the distributions.
  • mjw1007 4y ago
    4. A lot of modern software would be so painful to package that nobody can face packaging it anyway.
• arccy 4y ago
  once you get enough reports, you recognize the pattern, and close them as "packaging/distro error" and kick the can back to the distros
• Gigachad 4y ago
  >How do other software creators deal with this problem? They embed time bombs in their software to berate the Debian maintainers for leaving ancient versions of packages up.