Arch <i>does</i> have a lot of that. Not all of it, but it does have clean chroot building, gpg signing, linting etc. Mostly, arch does less testing as the philosophy is &quot;trust upstream&quot;.<p>However, none of this is required for <i>unofficial</i> packages. You <i>can</i> do it, but you don&#x27;t have to. This is where I&#x27;m saying you&#x27;re conflating two different things - QA and packaging are separate.<p>Please don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love debian and they do an incredible service to the Linux community with their testing. But why force it all on users that just want to build a simple package instead of doing make install as root?