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The answer for this guy and other people stretched by supporting Linux is to say it's flatpak or nothing. Stop trying to build for each dist because it's not sustainable. If someone on a dist wants to maintain a package then let them take the heat if it is broken.
Why should he get a say on how someone else installs the software on their own systems?
If I want to build an arch package instead, what business is that of his?
It's open source, the package the developer chooses to distribute doesn't affect your ability to create whatever kind of package for your own system you want.
Except this developer has created license terms that forbids the creation of "packages", so he clearly does want to affect my ability to do just that.