Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2012-11-11 10:30, Thomas Koch wrote: > >> The best way is to get your software in the official debian archive. >> There are infrastructure and established workflows to recompile packages >> for each Debian version. >> The backports archive contains newer versions of a package for the >> current stable Debian release. > > I don't want to limit myself to just the debian based package mangers. I > want my tools to be available/usable on all distributions.
If your package is in Debian then it is automatically also in Ubuntu, Mint, Xandros, Univention, Aptosid, Knoppix and a few douzend more distributions which are all derivatives of Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros Roughly the other half(?) of the linux universe is based on Fedora, e.g. CentOS, Red Hat: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Derived_distributions So by getting your package in the archives of Debian and Fedora, you should serve the large majority of linux users. The Debian wiki has a list of advantages why somebody would want to have his software in a distributions archive: http://wiki.debian.org/AdvantagesForUpstream Best regards, Thomas Koch
