rationale for "debianutils" directory?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i've always wondered what the justification is for a separate
"debianutils" directory.  i mean, it's not as if what's in there is
exclusive to debian-based systems.

  for instance, "run-parts" can be found on fedora core systems, as
can mktemp and readlink and so on.  wouldn't it make more sense to
just divvy up the contents of that directory among the other applet
directories to which those tools are related?

rday