> Bottom line, I think the short-term arguments against making debhelper > build-essential are decent, but long-term is another matter. >
my understanding of build-essential is that the package gives people an easy way to have a system capable of compiling a C(++) program. There is nothing in it that inherently gives one the ability to make deb packages. Perhaps what people really want is to have task-debian-developer made an autoload by the buildd's.
