From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 16:29:01 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> It’s not the developers’ job to provide the packaging for   
   >> particular distros. Leave that to the distro maintainers: they take   
   >> your source code, and build it and package it in a form that hooks   
   >> nicely into their distro- specific dependency system.   
   >   
   > Well, yes, but... (or yabbut...)   
   >   
   > ... the distro maintainers are very busy and 'understaffed' :-) They   
   > can't 'keep up' w/ all of the source and compiling for each release.   
      
   And the software developers are similarly very busy and “understaffed”,   
   and cannot keep up with all of the packaging for each distro.   
      
   Let each one stick to their knitting ... or at least, to their part of the   
   whole tapestry that is Open Source.   
      
   > There is a 'world' of software dev/s out there, who come up w/ a 'linux'   
   > product/source and look around at each other and say, "Now what do I   
   > do?"   
      
   Make sure they include a decently robust build script.   
      
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