Package: debian-base-minimal
Version: 7
Depends: aptitude, info, iputils-ping, locales, logrotate, man-db,
 manpages, netbase, netcat-traditional, passwd, procps,
 rsyslog | system-log-daemon, traceroute, whiptail, wget, apt-utils,
 popularity-contest, patch
Description: Dummy package depending on a minimal set of useful packages from the base system
 This is the subset of packages from the base system that should be
 present on every install, including chroot / vserver installs.

 The term base system used here is what debian-installer gives you when
 not installing anything else (so not even the "standard system" task).