[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

> Such maintainer will be kicked off from distribution.

ORLY? What's Kurt Roeckx[0] up to these days? Oh right, he's the Debian Project secretary, despite famously crippling RNG in OpenSSL.

> Developer wishes are developer wishes. User wishes are more important.

You mean like the wish to get up to date software directly from the developer without waiting for some third-party middleman to get around to updating the repo?

> You can use any distribution developed by developers (do you know any?) if you dislike maintained distributions and share experience with us.

Such a beast doesn't seem to exist in the Linux world, so I just don't use Linux. Linux Desktop's abysmally low market share may or may not be related.

[0] To be fair to Kurt, he wasn't the only one who didn't see a problem removing those lines and he did ask around first. It is an understandable mistake and I don't mean to crucify him.