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Originally Posted by KevinH
eschwartz and the other official distribution maintainers have the trust of their linux distribution organization that help makes Linux work and their distribution signs their binaries for release (similar to what we do for the Mac ones) They track down and fix build issues and bug reports that are specific to their distribution.
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Actually, what I do is share the build scripts used to compile the software. Some distros are better than others at making it easy for users to trivially roll their own packages. The barrier to entry is low.
I'd be quite overjoyed if I could find a way to build (and let others build) stuff with the same ease on, say Ubuntu. But the barrier to entry is higher there...
And I am not official anything, though I appreciate the compliment anyway.
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My thoughts on the matter -- Snaps and Flatpak are still far away from being easy to use for the developer, even should they want to.
And Sigil doesn't move nearly as fast as, say, calibre, so relying on the now widespread availability of Sigil in distro repositories is sufficient for the majority use case.
Seeing this repeatedly brought up strikes me as somewhat bizarre.