On 11/14/2016 07:58 AM, Iain R. Learmonth wrote:
If the software is stable, and reproducibly built, I would aim for placing it into the Debian archives. I maintain ooniprobe on deb.torproject.org, but primarily for Ubuntu users and I would prefer that Debian users are using the version from the Debian archive.
One issue we run into is that in trying to support older distributions, we often then have to take on maintaining backports for various packages and in some cases this is a lot of overhead and careful version number management.
If you wanted to set up your own Debian repository, that would also be an alternative solution for the short-term.
This is a really good point, thank you for your suggestion. I will change my approach and set up a Debian repository that Debian and Ubuntu users can use. I looked also into adding into Debian. How do you suggest that I get started with this? It would be great if I could get it into Debian 8 if possible.