> They often do care about build systems more than the maintainers, as they're the ones who have to make it work for everyone. Every interaction I've had with

> They often do care about build systems more than the maintainers, as they're the ones who have to make it work for everyone. Every interaction I've had with packagers has been them trying to make the build system work for their single distro. None of them have ever tried to help make it work for "everyone" running linux, much less spend any time thinking about the other two platforms that have 90% of the actual users. IME they also tend to be much more focused on making the build system work on their distro than making the actual software work. Not surprising given that that's what they know, but they tend to be perfectly happy to make changes which cause functional problems to get things to build.