> If that were was all there is to packaging - upstream developers could do the same job & have their CI/CD pipeline shoot out a .deb file. That's what some us

> If that were was all there is to packaging - upstream developers could do the same job & have their CI/CD pipeline shoot out a .deb file. That's what some users seem to want today. It's why both Flatpak and Snap exist with the goals of letting upstream developers just CI/CD spit out a "universal" package for Linux and getting a more "Mac-like" (or "Windows-like" if you prefer) install experience with less waiting for package maintainers to get around to publishing upstream changes. Admittedly, Flatpak and Snap aren't universally beloved either, yet, but the balance of what the job for a distro's package maintainers should be is definitely in shift.