I can&#x27;t help but think that if 10 years ago submitting Debian packages has been made easier rather than harder then we would not have this ugly mess today (and Debian would be in a better shape, too).
As a software author all I want is to provide others with a simple way to install my stuff. I&#x27;d like to write a simple deb spec and tell &quot;just apt-get it&quot;. And the fact that not everybody is running Debian is not really a concern since packages can be automatically converted most of the time.
But that is not possible, not because writing deb specifications is hard, but because to push any new thing in Debian requires to go though a &quot;becoming an official Debian maintainer&quot; process involving lots of steps including convincing some people that you and your software are worth it, check of ID, etc. I do not want to become an official anything, so I just git push to whatever smaller package manager that&#x27;s used in that community.