I don't think there's a good way to measure Debian's contributions outside strictly packaging its distribution. If a Debian developer, or a group of Debian dev

I don't think there's a good way to measure Debian's contributions outside strictly packaging its distribution. If a Debian developer, or a group of Debian developers, sets out to solve some problem that isn't Debian-specific, the result is (quite correctly) seen as a new independent free-software project rather than a Debian project. For example, as I understand it the reproducible builds project (now reproducible-builds.org) started out inside Debian, then became a thing of its own.