On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:22:16AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:21:55PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > I doubt you know what the logic was. > > No, I don't, because I can't see any logic in excluding debhelper.
I don't know how the decision ended up being made, but the argument I presented at the time is that a dependency on debhelper is far more likely to be versioned than the others are. A package that makes use of a new feature of debhelper is going to have to declare its own build-depends anyway. Richard Braakman
