Linux distributors are in the business of integrating software from
multiple sources, packaging the result, and making it available to their
users.  It has long been true that some projects are easier to package than
others.  The Debian
technical committee (TC) is currently being asked to
make a decision in a dispute over how an especially hard-to-package project
— Kubernetes — should be handled.
Regardless of the eventual outcome, this disagreement clearly shows how the
packaging model used by Linux distributors is increasingly mismatched to
how software is often developed in the 2020s; what should replace that model
is rather less clear, though.