ORLY? What's Kurt Roeckx[0] up to these days? Oh right, he's the Debian Project secretary, despite famously crippling RNG in OpenSSL.

> Developer wishes are developer wishes. User wishes are more important.

You mean like the wish to get up to date software directly from the developer without waiting for some third-party middleman to get around to updating the repo?

> You can use any distribution developed by developers (do you know any?) if you dislike maintained distributions and share experience with us.

Such a beast doesn't seem to exist in the Linux world, so I just don't use Linux. Linux Desktop's abysmally low market share may or may not be related.

[0] To be fair to Kurt, he wasn't the only one who didn't see a problem removing those lines and he did ask around first. It is an understandable mistake and I don't mean to crucify him.

Debian did this, they said oops and moved on. Packagers suck as developers, they apply patches they don't fully understand to solve problems they don't understand on codebases they don't understand.