I'm really surprise how many users see Debian's packing as being so great. I've contributed to several projects upstream, and, as devs, Debian's packaging is a

I'm really surprise how many users see Debian's packing as being so great. I've contributed to several projects upstream, and, as devs, Debian's packaging is a PITA. We constantly get bug reports for _very old_ major versions, because Debian is way out of date. We don't support these versions, but bug reports from Debian users keep coming because it's the latest in debian. But there's actually a worse scenario: bug reports we can't reproduce. Because Debian packagers consistently patch applications in their packages. A lot. So we get bug reports that aren't from our actual code, but rather a "Debian-forked-version". Clearly, the end-user interests are completely different from the upstream devs'. But the issues are pretty evident from the other side.