It seems to me that distro packagers help lower the barrier to entry for would-be open-source developers. Even if your autoconf-based, or pkgconfig-based, or c

It seems to me that distro packagers help lower the barrier to entry for would-be open-source developers. Even if your autoconf-based, or pkgconfig-based, or cpan-based, or gems-based project only builds half the time (the "works for me" release model), distro packagers (Debian included) make sure it builds and works for a large user base and on architectures the upstream developer might not have access to.