the problem with external dependencies is that functionality can be broken due to circumstances outside of your control. vis a vis, the getweb stuff is currently broken (in unstable as well as stable!) because the upstream author randomly decided to modify his directory naming scheme. this is why debian policy required that there are no dependencies on packages outside of main.
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