"One day Ubuntu came out, the package manager (including dep mgmt) worked really well and there was a ton of great software in the repository." But without res

"One day Ubuntu came out, the package manager (including dep mgmt) worked really well and there was a ton of great software in the repository." But without resources like freshmeat, how are the packagers supposed to find out about new software to package. There is still one hell of a lot more unpackaged software than there is packaged, and finding it is going to become ever more difficult. I'm personally quite annoyed by freshmeat's shutdown - I still checked it every (other) day.