It's generally easiest to find a maintainer who has an established track
record to adopt the project.

On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 11:53 AM, <matt...@woodcraft.me.uk> wrote:

> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > I love Debian. I've been a loyal user for twenty years. But Debian is
> > really bad at coping with software that needs to react quickly to
> changing
> > external conditions, or that depends on a tight feedback loop between
> users
> > and developers. (Indeed, Debian's whole value-add is to insert themselves
> > as a buffer between users and developers, which is great in some
> situations
> > but terrible in others.)
> >
> > Maybe if certbot worked hard enough they could arrange to get special
> > treatment like Firefox or clamav or something, but in their position I
> > would see this as a total non-starter. Even if they did somehow manage to
> > navigate Debian's politics, they'd still have to go and repeat the
> process
> > for Redhat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Gentoo, ...
>
> I wouldn't be too put off by the idea of Debian politics. Certbot should
> be a good fit for stable-updates:
> https://wiki.debian.org/StableUpdates
> under the "Packages that need to be current to be useful" criterion listed
> at https://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110215
>
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