Debian has been a major driver in making many pieces of software reproducible across every distribution; that Debian maintainers so often submit patches upstrea

Debian has been a major driver in making many pieces of software reproducible across every distribution; that Debian maintainers so often submit patches upstream and work directly to solve these issues is a big reason for this. In other words: the work Debian has done absolutely set the stage for this to happen, and it would have taken much longer without them.