David wrote:
Not quite: Setting up a distro and preparing packages to include them into a distro is a bit more than blindly following "upstreams".Said more simply? This discussion is on the wrong list. You're talking to the wrong people. Actually it looks more like you are talking to yourselves.
It also means package maintainers to be "listening" to their "user-base", to communicate their user-base's concerns upstream and to deviate from upstream when necessary.