You spent weeks building a CLI tool. It runs perfectly on your phone in Termux. You open a pull request to termux-packages , and a few days later it's closed.

So you try TUR. Same story: stalled, or declined.

Now what? Do you tell your users to keep doing this?

git clone https://github.com/you/your-tool cd your-tool # install dependencies # hope the build works on their device

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Most people never get past that. If this is you, this guide is for you.

First: a rejection doesn't mean your tool is bad

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