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Bug#205935: marked as done ([external] Should check for contrib and non-free dependencies of main package)

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regarding [external] Should check for contrib and non-free dependencies of main package
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Package: lintian
Severity: important

Greetings,

babel 0.8.6 was just rejected due to contrib dependencies, when lintian
said it was clean.  Upstream's modifications changed the deps from
libxerces-java in main to libxerces2-java and libxalan2-java, both of
which are in contrib.  I'm glad ftpmaster caught this...

I think lintian should provide this functionality, which is pretty
essential to Debian's legality, particularly when some packages move
from main to contrib on a version change!

Zeen,
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Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:47:03PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:

>> babel 0.8.6 was just rejected due to contrib dependencies, when lintian
>> said it was clean.  Upstream's modifications changed the deps from
>> libxerces-java in main to libxerces2-java and libxalan2-java, both of
>> which are in contrib.  I'm glad ftpmaster caught this...
>> 
>> I think lintian should provide this functionality, which is pretty
>> essential to Debian's legality, particularly when some packages move
>> from main to contrib on a version change!
>
> Lintian as such has no notion of sections of packages other than the one
> currently being checked. It's especially error-prone since sections
> retrieved from the dpkg database may or may not correspond to the
> current settings in the override file. Chances are that you'll need to
> get some other tool to check this...

This is one of the bugs against Lintian that was left open and marked
[external] and wontfix to serve as an idea for other packages, but we do
already have other scripts that check for these sorts of dependencies now
(and new techniques like pbuilder builds).  Since Lintian by design
doesn't do this sort of check, I don't think there's much purpose served
in leaving the bug open and tagged wontfix.  I'm therefore closing it.

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