Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>
> The maintainers have indicated (if I understand correctly) that they are
> not accepting additional official packages, but that they will recommend
> community repositories that are actively maintained. I see little
> reason that people shouldn't submit new free programs to Debian and wait
> for it to propagate down. In no way does that require reliance on
> unfree software.
I believe the stance is more:
if you can provide proof that you have a plan for keeping it up to date,
the relevant patches to builder, and that it fits our guidelines (its
free software), it will be considered for inclusion