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by ducktective 1425 days ago
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.

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And they did. jq is packaged in Debian now.