Re: Is debhelper build-essential?

[Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>]

Anthony Towns wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:
>
> > The stats:
> >   8,920  source packages in Debian unstable main.
> >   8,254  declare a build-dependency on debhelper
> >   = 92% of packages build-depend on debhelper.
> > Is that sufficient to declare it build-essential?
> Also of interest is that some 1300 packages would no longer need to 
> declare a Build-Depends: at all with those changes, and another 1200 
> wouldn't need to declare a Build-Depends-Indep:.

Oh, also:

http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tpackage-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper.html

Having the current debhelper be build-essential would fix the ~237 bugs 
lintian finds for build-deps on debhelper that should be versioned, but 
aren't.

Cheers,
aj