debian/rules
   
Thu, 13 Jan 2005

Then things will get ugly...

... If we made debhelper build-essential.

Package: debhelper
...
Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16), coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0-2.1), file (>= 3.23-1), dpkg-dev (>= 1.7.0), 
         html2text, debconf-utils (>= 1.1.1), binutils, po-debconf

But, Scott, you do have a good point. 92% of the archive is not an insignificant amount.

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