Package: debhelper Severity: wishlist Hello Niels.
I reported this against chef: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839718 but I fear that there must be more packages with the same bug. Maybe it would be useful that debhelper detects that /lib/lsb/init-functions is being used in some init script and adds lsb-base automatically to ${misc:Depends}. (The chef source package uses "dh" and it uses debian/chef.chef-client.init automatically). I was also going to report this against lintian, but it was already reported as Bug #468147. As of today, lsb-base is "less" essential than before: util-linux no longer depends on it and it's perfectly possible to have a chroot to build packages without it. Thanks.
