even linus pointed it out in one of his q&a sessions that he doesn't know for which distribution his diving related software has to be packaged.

and apparently it's possible to have some abstraction to package simultaneosly for different, not only distributions, but operating systems.

i feel pascal software is not appreciated in part because it is not packaged. and this script maybe should be improved and more pascal software can be packaged for debian, for freebsd, so that people could use it, and it'd be appreciated.