apt-utils comes from the same top-level source package though: https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/apt https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/apt I know yo

apt-utils comes from the same top-level source package though: https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/apt https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/apt I know you can make configure-time decisions based on the architecture and ship a leaner apt-utils on a legacy platform, but it's not as obvious as "oh yeah that thing is fully auxiliary and in a totally different codebase".