Makarius> In the end the main question is how to serve users best. Makarius> There is hardly anybody missing a Debianized version of Makarius> Isabelle, but people occasionally come to me and say I should Makarius> bundle even more things in the one big Isabelle distribution, Makarius> bypassing problems of their standard OS packages.
Here is one datapoint the other way. I wish Isabelle was DFSG free and I wish it was possible to package it. I will not use the binary bundle, just as I will not use a binary bundle of, say, Adobe Reader, however convenient it might seem at any given moment.
I would be interested to know what the "problems of their standard OS packages" are, in the case of Debian.