Regarding the FOSS replacements, perhaps it would be good to have one repo for replacements that completly replicate the original functionality (even the quirkier rarelly used options, there is always someone that will miss them), leaving those untouched except for bug fixes (and other fixes that doesn't do away with functionalities nor does any major reworking of the parts of the programs users deal with), and have a separated repo for the more radical replacements (perhaps make some sort of standard for version numbers giving the ones in the radical repo a huge distance ahead of the plain recreations repo so that at least until a century or so from now the version numbers in the plain replacements repo will never reach the earliest version in the radical repo, or just use fractional version numbers on the plain repo and in the radical repo use the fractional part to indicate what plain version the radical was based on and the rest of the number for the actual version number for the radical repls. ; or whatever you guys consider the best way to do it )


edit: the plain and the rad repls. repos could each have -testing and -devel companions like extras, or whatever you think is better