> What would you suggest that it do if dpkg-dev is not installed? Surely it > should not abort and skip the download of the package, which can still be > unpacked without dpkg-dev. All it could do is display a warning or such, > which is essentially the same as the current behaviour.
Aborting would be bad. Displaying a proper warning would be a good idea, especially when you run apt-get -b source. Not a big deal though.
