"Some developers may complain that distros ship their software too slowly, but you shouldn’t sweat it."<p>Our problem over at ardour.org isn't that they're too slow - it's that they don't get it right. Hence our own distro-neutral package, and our policy that this is the only version we can support.
But why would a distro package software that one uses? And why would people use software they cannot easily install? You need some way of breaking the deadlock.