Packaging Kubernetes for Debian

I'm not a packager: it does feel to me as if snap, flatpak and Docker are all manageable within Debian, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE - they're not a huge step from what the distributions already do - and actually Dockerfiles mostly seem to be Alpine, Debian or Ubuntu anyway. Red Hat (and CentOS) have already moved from Docker to podman - I've no idea how you could fit anything that Debian has problems doing into Red Hat's release schedule: to me, Red Hat systems are not meant for developers, even if Fedora and CentOS modules can eventually be sorted out. Fedora sometimes appears stretched with the numbers of packages and release schedule (and Fedora packages often never filter to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, even given EPEL).

Pip / NPM - the stability of concrete made with quicksand (and rock sugar rather than gravel) and about as much maintainability and longevity - and that's before any considerations of non-existent security, typosquatting and lack of reliable attribution.

Long time Debian developer - but speaking entirely from my own experience and prejudice and without any attribution to the wider Project whatsoever.