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Bug#822833: marked as done (Detect Recommends to non-free)

Your message dated Sun, 19 Jun 2016 15:32:56 +0000
with message-id <5dd948d7-1b00-850d-4c83-6eb0dccdc328@thykier.net>
and subject line Re: Bug#822833: Detect Recommends to non-free
has caused the Debian Bug report #822833,
regarding Detect Recommends to non-free
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.21
Severity: wishlist

It would be super nice if lintian could somehow detect 'Recommends'
pointing outside main:

Policy 2.2.1 states:

> In addition, the packages in main
>
> must not require or recommend a package outside of main for
> compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Pre-
> Depends", "Depends", "Recommends", "Build-Depends", or "Build-
> Depends-Indep" relationship on a non-main package),


This was detected by a human:

https://bugs.debian.org/820190

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On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:39:39 +0200 Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Mathieu!
> 
> [...]
> 
> Lintian doesn't do any cross-package checks (with the exception of 
> packages built from the same sources). We have debcheck for archive-wide 
> dependency checks:
> 
> https://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=sid&list=withinmain&arch=ANY
> 
> (Sadly, debcheck UI leaves much to be desired, and it looks 
> unmaintained. :-\)
> 
> That said, there are currently only ~760 non-main packages, and the list 
> probably don't change much over time, so maybe we could just save the 
> list into a static data file.
> 
> -- 
> Jakub Wilk
> 
> 

Let's leave this to debcheck and close this bug.

Thanks,
~Niels

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