On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I'm not convinced at all that something like debhelper should in part of > dpkg. dpkg basically contains low-level tools, other packages such as > debhelper and apt handle the high-level support. There are low level things that the high level tools traditionally have done such as permissions overrides in postinst and/or checksums. These belong into dpkg and there might be other things.