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When will this land in mainline distros (no PPAs etc)? Given that a new stable version of Debian was released very recently, I would imagine August 2027 for Debian and maybe April 2026 for Ubuntu?

In this very thread some people complain that certbot uses snap for distribution. Imagine making a feature release and having to wait 1-2 years until your users will get it on a broad scale.

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Nginx maintains their own repository from which you can install nginx on your Ubuntu / Debian systems.

I looked at Arch and they're a version behind, which surprised me. Must not be a heavily maintained arch package.

nginx has a stable release and a mainline release, which are packaged in Arch respectively as `nginx` and `nginx-mainline`. Both look up-to-date to me.

I assume they're complaining that it's a snap vs flatpak, not so much vs the distro package repos.

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