Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
and i simply don't have the time - or importantly the energy - to create a new image, *especially* based on people's comments and reactions that they'd be deeply unhappy with it not being a "stock image", even if all i did was make it boot sysvinit instead by default. those comments *alone* immediately terminate all and any possibility that i can provide debian/jessie in a 100% ethical way.
on receipt of the cards, anybody who wants to will be free and entirely at liberty to do "apt-get dist-upgrade" and they will be taking direct responsibility for doing so. for those people who are technically-minded they are also entirely free and at liberty to set up a from-scratch root filesystem.
Great, and what about newbies who want stock image and don't know the nooks and crannies of GNU/Linux?