@valhalla @dos @lproven ok, not a public mailing list then.

"submit it to mentors (a platform and a mailing list)"

in this text, "mentors" and "platform" imply winding up a group of people on social media about how great your program is and that debian would be hopeless without it.

These are the challenges I had trying to figure out the process, which quickly spiraled into being a debian developer because nowhere did anyone just say "submit your package to this email address"

@lproven @dos no no, I was just told that was all gibberish folklore. and I dont think people socially hype-up a package and create a ruccas about it on *mailing lists* to get it inducted into debian.

@dos @lproven

..... so.... what the truth about it then?

@lproven debian has a ban on contributions in general, I have a few cool little command line utilities and programs I wanted to contribute and found out it would take a 3 year certification process where I had to travel around the world exchanging usb keys to be allowed to and would only succeed if , after it all, one of them was willing to 'bless' me.

I honestly have no idea how ANY of the packages in debian got there, but I can TOTALLY understand when projects host there own packages.