There is a, well, very arrogant page in the autopackage wiki, which basically boils down to "everything around Linux is crap, so if you write an app for Linux, do it our way".

They totally have lost the grip of reality, apart from just writing a lot of things on Debian and other Linux distributions which is outright wrong.

But it looks like Debian no longer is on it's own with outright refusing to support autopackage crap. Looks like Python, C++, GTK, GlibC and the GNU toolchain. Oh, and pretty much everybody else.

So, dear autopackage, if everybody except you is stupid, why don't you just leave us alone, and write your own OS according to your rules? I bet you'll find out after some time why they were setup this way... and what breaks with $your_way.

And developers: Ignore autopackage, at least until they've adopted a sane attitude towards cooperating and dropped their arrogance. And they offer a solution which actually solves problems, instead of introducing tons of new ones (especially bringing back fragmentation, and all the dependency hell and incompatibilities a good package mangement tries so hard to avoid)

If you really think you need "average" users to be able to try your latest version without wating for an "experienced" user to build packages for them, maybe have a look at Klik. While I have a low opinion of this approach in total, Klik seems to have a much better design, and especially a much better attitude.