Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > That's not the real reason. Take the definition of build-essential > packages from policy. It specifies that the list will not cantain any > packages that are optional in building a package that contains a C or > C++ program. It should be clear to everybody that debhelper is not > required (there are developers who don't use debhelper - consider in > contrast dpkg-dev, which everybody needs) and thus not essential.
Now you're tempting me to go make a package that builds without using those nasty "helper" programs dpkg-deb, dpkg-gencontrol, and dpkg-shlibdeps.. :-P -- see shy jo
