> As a software dev, my personal experience of "professional linux distro packagers" is people literally removing random lines of code of my software until it b

> As a software dev, my personal experience of "professional linux distro packagers" is people literally removing random lines of code of my software until it builds That's sad. But fortunately, not all packagers are like this. As a software dev too, I have a great experience with packagers from various distributions. When they have an issue (either build or runtime) they tell me about it and we discuss a patch together that I include in my next release. > My subjective experience from the software I use is that stuff like AppImage made straight by the dev is generally much more stable and works much better than whatever chtonian hack a debian packager decided to apply. Sure it works if you are in the most common case (Linux on x86_64), but it has some downsides: * It only supports CPU architectures the dev can build for * It only supports operating systems the dev can build for * The dev needs to publish an update every time there is a vulnerability in a bundled dependency (assuming they are even watching for vulnerabilities)