[paulddraper]

Sure. I publish to deb repos all the time.

(I've found Bintray to be the easiest.)

[tyoverby]

I didn't say "a" deb repo, I said "the standard debian repository". Just like when I'm talking about NPM, I'm talking about the main NPM repository, not my company's private NPM server.

[paulddraper]

Well, you've chosen a terrible comparison then.

How many NPM repos are there? Just one, too-big-to-fail, centralized repository.

Don't ding apt/deb just because people setup their own repos rather than put all the code in the world into one bucket.

There's a lot more inconvenient things than adding the /etc/apt/sources

[tyoverby]

> How many NPM repos are there? Just one, too-big-to-fail, centralized repository.

There are actually plenty, it's just that they're usually found on-prem at a company.