Actually, I don't think that's generally true if you're talking about the libs. A cursory glance at the output of `apt-cache rdepends libgnutls26` suggests that

Actually, I don't think that's generally true if you're talking about the libs. A cursory glance at the output of `apt-cache rdepends libgnutls26` suggests that wget is the only relatively "popular" package depending on it. However, some other distros such as Arch do not have wget depending on it, so you do have a point about Debian.