I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh)

Just give the source away. Don’t package it at all (or at most, do so for your own distro). If your software is good enough, others will do the packaging for you. You’ll have to field a few inquiries, maybe, until someone steps up, but if you’ve got a canned response already written those don’t take long to handle.

This dev’s problems are twofold: first, he’s in too much of a hurry to get this thing out everywhere, instead of waiting for others to take the burden off him. Second, he wrote his code in Rust, which is difficult to package correctly in a self-contained manner because it tries to force you into using its own language-specific dependency system. He picked up a footgun and shot himself with it, in other words, and is now hopping around cursing.

Just give the source away. Don’t package it at all (or at most, do so for your own distro). If your software is good enough, others will do the packaging for you.

As someone who’s developed and shipped software you may know, who’s worked in rel/eng, OS security, escalations (we research the fix for the sploit and build the artifact for the update pipeline; everyone calls it something else) before being just an admin to manage hordes of machines; with the knowledge gained in every post I’ve ever held, let me say:

THIS. ABSOLUTELY THIS.

If you are a great coder but suck at packaging or hate it, then don’t. You’d produce something sub-par anyway.

Let the knowledgeable enthusiastic obsessively-detailed people do it for you and you’ll be happier and so will they.