Technology, Open Source and Shiny Things

So I have been looking around at starting to package with Ubuntu. I have been going back and forth as to whether to try to submit packages to Ubuntu directly or setup my own repository. As the packages will likely be security related I am leaning towards submitting to Ubuntu. I don’t know why the metasploit packages are not in Ubuntu. Part of me says that it is lack of interest and they just need someone to step up and make the packages and part of me says it may be for political/legal reasons. I can’t even find deb packages for most of the stuff or an external repository. I haven’t been able to contact anyone on IRC either.