The rationale doesn’t even seem like a rationale — it’s more like an argument that this choice might plausibly work. But why? Those pure source build-time depe

The rationale doesn’t even seem like a rationale — it’s more like an argument that this choice might plausibly work. But why? Those pure source build-time dependencies don’t even seem useful to package. As a user of Debian or a downstream distro, there is approximately zero chance that I would want to use these packages for any purpose. This is a completely different situation from C/C++ and from building a distro out of C/C++ source. C does not have a useful package manager, and it’s handy if my distro has C libraries packaged. My distro might use them! (I might also use them for my own unpackaged work! But then I might get grumpy that the result of building my own code isn’t actually useful outside that version of that distro, and then I risk having to use containers (sigh), when what I actually wanted was just a build artifact that could run on other distros.)