Bug#873395: lintian: check for non-free dependencies in packages targetting main

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 873395 + wontfix
retitle 873395 lintian: check for non-free dependencies in packages targeting main
thanks

Hi Drew,

> A recent build of libdolfin2017.1 (i.e. dolfin 2017.1.0-1 in main)
> accidentally resulted in a dependency on a non-free package,
> libparmetis4.0

Unfortunately, Lintian does not "know" about the state of the
archive; it does not query any local APT repository and, pretty
obviously, it cannot check remotely on each invocation.

I am therefore marking this as "wontfix".

I agree this would be a nice check to have, but as it can be caught
by the ftpmasters it is not the end of the world that Lintian is
not in a position to warn about such things.


Regards,

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