Comment 7 for bug 659572

I can understand the frustration you experienced - except that in this specific case the tool was (a) moved from one package to another (b) renamed in the process and (c) never explicitly called from UCK (uck just replaces some files and then calls make to have the gfxboot-theme-ubuntu package do its magic).

We *are* trying to handle dependencies as best we can on the dpkg dependency layer, but in this specific case this was insufficient.

Creating and maintaining dependecy checking on a per-command base would certainly be possible, but IMHO would not give us better protection against (possiblly transitive) dependency errors. It also would increase the maintenance effort quite a bit and create new opportunities for errors.