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Getting in a patch fight with a .deb maintainer is a right of passage that everyone in the OSS world gets to go through. The slicing and dicing that is done to well mannered software that didn't harm anyone is atrocious. PETP (People for the Ethical Treatment of Packages)

Distros and packaging have much lower relevance as operating systems are viewed as applications, rarely are unix systems multiuser, often serving a single software package. Even desktop operating systems are getting containerized, Qubes, etc.