Misadventures in GUI package-building

if you consider that the package would need to be different for each different distro (and likely for different releases of the same distro), I don't know how any packaging tool could reach the point of 'run it and upload it to the distro repository'

for that matter, I would have assumed that the distros don't take binary uploads anyway. shouldn't they all be setup where you upload the source and a series of instructions and their build servers create the binary packages for each of their several target architectures?

there is not as much variation in distros that accept .deb packages, but if you look at all the distros that use .rpm packages, the number of things that would be different from one to the other seems like it would be very significant, and a lot of it would be things that a packaging tool would not know about (what the the correct version of gcc to use, etc)