Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately. We want thoughtful, curious conversation here—not flamebait, unsubstantive comments, and swipes.
A lot of modern open source projects include a lock file or some other mechanism that ensures that all contributors use the same versions of certain key tools. Obviously there are still going to be some differences in the environment, but for things like formatting, linting, etc, it's generally fairly easy to lock down a specific version.
In Python, the easiest way to achieve this is using Poetry, which creates a lock file so that all developers are using a consistent set of versions. In other languages, this is generally the default configuration of the standard package manager.
The popular Rust tool "ripgrep" uses a lock file for development (you can see it in the GitHub repo), and yet is in the official repositories for homebrew, various Windows package managers, Arch, Gentoo, Fedora, some versions of openSUSE, Guix, recent versions of Debian (and therefore Ubuntu), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Haiku.
With all due respect, I don't think you're correct.
Distros can keep their own lock file that is based on their own release branch's versions. If it doesn't build, the pkg maintainer will either file a bug report or make a patch, or neither.
