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by RetroTechie 395 days ago
> There is a lot of political stuff in there related to standards.

To be fair, in Debian's case politics come with the territory. Debian is a vision of what an OS should be like. With policies, standards & guidelines aimed at that, treating the OS as a whole.

That goes well beyond "gather packages, glue together & upload".

Same goes for other distributions I suppose (some more, some less).