Some GUADEC notes

Another way of doing this would be to have a meta-package format that can be used to generate .debs, .rpms and whatever. Then upstream authors could include such a meta-package build script with their software, and use it themselves to provide packages for any distributions they cared about (with users building binary packages for anything the developers couldn't handle and sending them back to the developers). And distribution people could send back packaging fixes to the build script (or to the maintainers of the meta-packaging system when appropriate) to ensure that the resulting packages fitted in with their distributions rules and requirements.