Message 167626 - Python tracker

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Installing dpkg-dev indeed resolved the issue for me on Debian Wheezy,
but msg166444 said that the problem appeared in 7955d769fdf5. 

So was dpkg-dev already an official dependency before 7955d769fdf5
or not?