This was my I first thought before Debian because I've noticed Debian packages don't always work like the Ubuntu repo ones and the latter is used by the large majority and I don't mean desktop things but rather server things. The concern is how much infulence will Canonical have on the repo contents itself. If distros have to override Ubuntu repo packages what's the point? I could wait and see if things go that way or choose different. I like voting with my feet.