Comment by grumbel

I wouldn't call that easy. Downloading source, doing a patch and rebuilding once is doable[1] with some manual work. But even that doesn't last, it's extremely brittle the moment you try to update anything. Debian isn't build with forks in mind, it wants one big monolithic dependency tree and when you move away from that it falls apart quickly. Which is the reason why they recommend to remove all third party stuff whenever you do a dist-upgrade.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/324680/how-to-apply...