You clearly do not understand, especially given that gibberish about not being listed in some wiki, and utter irrelevancies about dpkg and puppet, which have no bearing upon the matter of publishing one Debian repository with multiple versions of packages at all.
I'm just not going to laboriously re-type it all into Hacker News when you can just go to the published repository and see it all explicitly laid out right there in the repository itself, with the exact scripts and commands that get run to produce the very repository that you are seeing -- quite the opposite of either handwaving or workarounds.
You could get to it with an FTP or an HTTP client, too. But that would just leave you with the raw files in no particular order, rather than the annotated and organized GOPHER listings. A value-added bonus for the GOPHER version, as I said.
You don't actually have any justification at all for your claim that this is somehow impossible with Debian repositories, given that people like me are doing it with a few simple scripts and even publishing them for the world to see; and clearly neither handwaving nor workarounds for anything are required.
First of all, it is the only thing that is relevant. Repo needs to be functional using tools provided by the distribution that uses that repo format. No one cares that one can download tarballs and compile them -- this is not 1997. In 2019 it is "Enter this command and get this result". Feed this result into the orchestration/management framework. Find a bug? Fix the bug. The rest of the system will continue to function.
Second of all, you still have not provided a link to the doc that someone can read without installing a gopher client. Come on, you said you already have it!
I'm just not going to laboriously re-type it all into Hacker News when you can just go to the published repository and see it all explicitly laid out right there in the repository itself, with the exact scripts and commands that get run to produce the very repository that you are seeing -- quite the opposite of either handwaving or workarounds.
You could get to it with an FTP or an HTTP client, too. But that would just leave you with the raw files in no particular order, rather than the annotated and organized GOPHER listings. A value-added bonus for the GOPHER version, as I said.
You don't actually have any justification at all for your claim that this is somehow impossible with Debian repositories, given that people like me are doing it with a few simple scripts and even publishing them for the world to see; and clearly neither handwaving nor workarounds for anything are required.