On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 12:03 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Ah, I see. I was too sloppy. I was talking about Debian packages.
>
> That still doesn't explain it to me (I don't use Debian).  Can you
> elaborate what kind of packages are we talking about, in the context
> of this discussion?
>

Debian supports a user installing, for example, emacs+magit, via Debian
packages. This gets the user a stable, known-tested version of emacs plus
the package usable on machines that, for another example, cannot or should
not connect to the internet. This is less important to developers, but is
an important part of the Debian support "contract".

For the record: I personally know of situations where such a setup would
like to use native-comp and would very much prefer NOT to duplicate either
the eln files per-user nor the effort of creating such. Whether or not that
situation is important enough to the combination of emacs-devel and
debian-maintainers to justify effort on either side is, of course,
debatable, but I am highly confident that they exist (at least, did before
the pandemic).

Hope that helps,
~Chad