[zamadatix]

No arguments there, I'm more talking what that means for the "build and distribute your own dev/rpm" part that follows. Why are the only options "do work for maintainers" or "provide a prebuilt package for the distro", what happened to "nobody said this needed to be done yet"?

[kijin]

No problem, if upstream doesn't want their software packaged for Distro X, nobody needs to do anything.

The thing about Linux filesystems, though, is that they consist of two parts: the kernel patch and the userspace tooling. Bcachefs is already in the kernel, so it's a bit awkward to leave out bcachefs-tools. Which is probably why it got packaged in the first place. Stable distros generally don't want loose ends flailing about in such a critical part of their system. If nobody wants to maintain bcachefs-tools for Debian, Debian will probably remove bcachefs entirely from their kernel as well.