From a user perspective the high level problem would be merged directories. Which dpkg apparently already supports. Just not the way the committee wants it done.
> deciding to drive development of the package manager
Which is the hilarious part: No one seems to be working on it. The package maintainer for dpkg isn't required to it as long as he accepts reasonable patches, but only half finished patches (that identify themselves as such) are coming in when the reported issues are not outright ignored. Seems liked Debian suffers from the same issue every open source projects suffers from: A bunch of lazy and entitled as fuck users insisting on features without putting any effort in themselves.
> deciding to drive development of the package manager
Which is the hilarious part: No one seems to be working on it. The package maintainer for dpkg isn't required to it as long as he accepts reasonable patches, but only half finished patches (that identify themselves as such) are coming in when the reported issues are not outright ignored. Seems liked Debian suffers from the same issue every open source projects suffers from: A bunch of lazy and entitled as fuck users insisting on features without putting any effort in themselves.