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 -M-