Sad thing is that this is 100% a problem related to the tools for building Debian packages (same goes for RPM). The tools can be replaced without sacrificing bi

Sad thing is that this is 100% a problem related to the tools for building Debian packages (same goes for RPM). The tools can be replaced without sacrificing binary compatibility at all. If any aspiring hackers are around, I suggest taking a look at Arch and its makepkg/PKGBUILD tools. Pretty much a simple shell script to define a package, and a uniform tool to build it.