I once made a Debian package and debhelper was a godsend. (Not that I'm insinuating mr. Hess is divine BTW).
If you think about it, the number of different programs in the Debian distribution depends on the number of prospective Debian Developers that didn't find it too complicated, tiresome, or awkward to make a Debian package of some Linux program they liked.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday November 09 2014, @12:25PM
Arguably debhelper is more important
(Score: 1) by fritsd on Sunday November 09 2014, @11:22PM
I once made a Debian package and debhelper was a godsend. (Not that I'm insinuating mr. Hess is divine BTW).
If you think about it, the number of different programs in the Debian distribution depends on the number of prospective Debian Developers that didn't find it too complicated, tiresome, or awkward to make a Debian package of some Linux program they liked.
17567 source packages in "Wheezy" (May 2013).