$ dpkg -l devscripts dh-make build-essential make                              
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  build-essentia 12.3         amd64        Informational list of build-essen
ii  devscripts     2.17.9       amd64        scripts to make the life of a Deb
ii  dh-make        2.201608     all          tool that converts source archive
ii  make           4.1-9.1      amd64        utility for directing compilation