Source: bitcoin Version: 0.11.0-1 Since 0.10.1-2 Debian's bitcoind binary package includes the bitcoin-tx binary, introduced upstream in 0.10.0. It should have its own package.
A user isn't likely to need both bitcoind/bitcoin-cli and bitcoin-tx on one machine; if you have bitcoin-cli you can use the rawtransaction API, including letting bitcoin-cli handle signing/wallet bits so that you don't have to provide raw private keys. The user may want to actively avoid bitcoind/bitcoin-cli; the main use case for bitcoin-tx is TX creation/signing on disconnected hosts, where the extra binaries and dependencies introduce redundant code into a context where you probably want the minimum possible. The PPA for Ubuntu currently doesn't include bitcoin-tx in any binary package yet [1]. Nor does Arch. Gentoo puts it in a separate package [2]. Cross-distro harmony seems sensible where it doesn't buck normal distro behaviour. Upstream trivial issue https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6600 is just-bundle-with-bitcoind-like-Debian but met some objections; getting it split everywhere is probably better. [1] <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/211658943/buildlog_ubuntu-vivid-amd64.bitcoin_0.11.0-vivid1_BUILDING.txt.gz> (look for "This package provides the daemon") [2] https://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-util/bitcoin-tx
