Well, it's clear that CSSU is for what it is, just (considered) stable updates without (most of the time) disruption of the original Maemo experience. And the way people work on it is up to the developers involved (mostly).

But that doesn't mean that a different (or not?) group of guys can provide alternate upgrades (such as this Debian based packages) on top of that.

If some guys can agreed to set up a new repository (out of Hildon Foundation's servers) with all this stuff so users can just apt-get upgrade to it that would be a great step forward.

Or a repository that actually depends on CSS Thumb for applications that are built with newer toolchain. There's no need to set up an autobuilder, that requires a lot of work and maintenance, just a repo to store all those packages that are randomly thrown in the forums.