Yeah, I can see that. Fortunately on many axes the situation is getting better and better, as data in https://trends.debian.net/ https://trends.debian.net/ show

Yeah, I can see that. Fortunately on many axes the situation is getting better and better, as data in https://trends.debian.net/ https://trends.debian.net/ show. But every single developer is still free to choose whatever tools they like, so there will be always packages that do it differently. On the other hand, there are reasons for scepticism towards proposals of forcing a uniform style. If such policies were accepted, they would have accepted years ago, so we would now be stuck with packages on SVN, much cruder tooling, etc. Back then SVN was really the future. What will be the future in ten years? We don't know, and that's the reason why we want to be sure that we'll be still free to move to it when it will arrive. (and, BTW, of course you can change your SVN policy, but then you have to update all at once 30k+ source packages and the habits of 1k+ developers, not really easy) Not to be meant as a rant, just an explanation for the current situation. > That said, again I love debian, its stability and high quality, and thanks to you and the volunteers who make it that way :) Thanks to you for your support!