Did you ever try to patch a software in debian or create your own package? Debian had no native and easy way to do that unless nix. If you have a standard cmake

Did you ever try to patch a software in debian or create your own package? Debian had no native and easy way to do that unless nix. If you have a standard cmake project you can be done in 10 minutes packaging it. Also applying patches is very easy with overlays while also keeping your software up to date and propogate the changes through the dependency chain.