Mike Bird via tde-devels wrote:
I haven't used cdbs but I thought it was something devs installed if they need it?
It holds the tde macros for building debian packages. It is not strictly requireing cdbs. It is also used by debhelper as well.
$ dpkg -L tde-cdbs /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/cdbs /usr/lib/cdbs/tde-versions.pl /usr/share /usr/share/cdbs /usr/share/cdbs/1 /usr/share/cdbs/1/class /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/tde.mk /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/tde-cdbs /usr/share/doc/tde-cdbs/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/tde-cdbs/copyright