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Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato



Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 	I think that since every package using a helper package seems
>  to need a versioned dependency, addign debhelper to build essential
>  shall not remove the burden from the packages. And auto build daemons
>  can also augment the build environment beyond build essential, as
>  they already do. 

Right. In fact it makes things worse since people will just assume that
their helper is already essential and they don't need to bother to
to check if they need to specify a versioned dependency for it as well.

Wichert.

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