[allarm]

Then do your part and become a maintainer. I don’t think that a small team of developers has cycles to do that at this point.

[ducktective]

Basically, CLI tools like this one or fzf, rg, fd have to become popular and useful enough to win favour of distro maintainers.

When enough shell scripts state a dependency on `jq`, debian maintainers would be inclined to package it.

[DiabloD3]

And they did. jq is packaged in Debian now.