Thanks for your interest for Mono in Debian, that clearly goes far beyond my own ;)
For a bit of context, Mono was facing removal from Debian after several years being unmaintained. I took over its maintenance because I rely on the Mono runtime binary and libraries for some other project of mine (https://wiki.debian.org/Games/PlayIt). On the other hand, I am not interested at all in Mono (or .NET) as a development platform. So don’t expect me to work on adding support for new packages that would only have some use in this context. Actually my current plan is to remove several binary packages built from the mono source package, reducing its scope until only the runtime binaries and libraries are still provided in Debian. So if some of you want to keep Mono/.NET as a development platform in Debian repositories, the only way it has a chance to happen is if you join the maintenance effort. By "joining the effort", I mean you would have to introduce and maintain any new package yourselves (or find other interested maintainers and start a team effort). I hope this summary makes it a bit clearer what the current state of Mono in Debian is, and what can be expected for as long as I am the only one willing to work on it.
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