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The author seems to have completely missed the point that they can just publish their own repositories to allow users on both of these platforms to update. It would also mean they could avoid the problems they're having building source packages.
Their complaints about supporting instalations with older libc versions are also addressable by just building against the oldest libc they wish to support.
All of that sounds unintuituve and complicated, which I think is the main complaint overall.
It does sound a bit daunting to begin with, but the process is actually fairly straightforward, and once you understand it, publishing your package to your repositories just becomes another step in your build pipeline.