Migration to systemd is painful and it needed two GR and a lot of drama to move forward. We had to wait debhelper 10 for it to not be a hack in packaging (2016)

Migration to systemd is painful and it needed two GR and a lot of drama to move forward. We had to wait debhelper 10 for it to not be a hack in packaging (2016). Migration away from python2 is wanted by doko, the Python maintainer. If he didn't want that, nothing would move. We were stuck for a long time with Python 2.6 because he didn't want to migrate to Python 2.7. As he is also maintainer of gcc and Java, nobody wanted to vote him out. I may have missed the headlines around the new source format. Ack for repeatable builds. What about bikesheds/PPA? Many discussions a few years back but mostly blocked because FTP masters want it to be integrated into DAK and under various other non-technical constraints.