Why not? It also accepts the totally arbitrary, locally typed "code" from the author. I'm also happy with the Launchpad approach, but even happier with debian'

Why not? It also accepts the totally arbitrary, locally typed "code" from the author. I'm also happy with the Launchpad approach, but even happier with debian's Reproducible Builds approach; you _can_ provide a binary package that you built on your own machine, but several other people will _also_ build it. With a reproducible build, they will all get _exactly_ the same result for a given architecture. If they don't... we've found a problem. I'd prefer to trust: * the creator of the package over the distributor of the package * a multitude of independent distributors who can all vouch the package builds the same for them, over a single distributor who builds it themselves and says "trust me bro"