Reason #25628 why I don't get things done faster. I had to set aside my tasks to patch reprepro so it could handle control.tar.xz files which is what are created by all of Debian's modern tools to create .deb files.

I submitted a merge request 2 weeks ago, but it hasn't been commented on, let alone reviewed or accepted.

But I've got the .deb for it on my apt repo and you can see the change and compile my version here if you want it. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/reprepro/-/merge_requests/14

Reason #25629 why I don't get things done faster. I spend time trying to get my patches upstreamed so more people can benefit from my work.

But just like my multi-year effort to get a patchlevel change in pam-u2f (from the original author and an official release, not a patch I wrote), it seems I'm being ghosted again.

Last time around, I reached out to the maintainer via email, the former maintainer, another person in auth, the maintainer via IRC, tried to get a mentor in IRC... all failed.