> What in my comments gave you the impression that I'm trying to argue for this at all? Of course they don't care, otherwise they'd be maintainers themselves.

> What in my comments gave you the impression that I'm trying to argue for this at all? Of course they don't care, otherwise they'd be maintainers themselves. You said: > When something isn't packaged for these users but they feel like it's popular/useful enough to be, they'll open a request with their distribution for someone to maintain that I don’t think that happens nearly often or quickly enough for most users to be satisfied. Hence why so much software is released through tertiary PPAs or .deb download links and so on.