Steve Greenland wrote: > Ain't gonna happen. It's been discussed before. The problem is that most > debhelper Build-Depends actually need to be versioned[1], which won't > work with build-essential. > > [1] I personally am not convinced this is the case (simply expecting > that the build-essentials install was kept up-to-date would be > sufficient), but enough people disagree with me (include the debhelper > maintainer, IIRC) that the discussion is not worth pursuing again.
That is not an accurate summary of my views on the matter, but I think the archives have enough by me on it already. -- see shy jo
