Courtès: What's in a package

This is a typical transition between experimental / not really production-quality / random or brittle (version specific) dependencies, limited testing, etc.

As components mature, they get more users, move a bit slower (as they've accrued more complexity, so moving too fast breaks stuff), and start cleaning up their dependencies, build reproducililty/testabiltiy, etc.

The distro packager has an un-enviable role in pushing for a lot of this maturation to happen, often facing antagonism from the developers. But it's a key step. Once upon a time, foundational pieces of today's stack such as MySQL and PostgreSQL were a gnarly mess to package...