Bug#822833: Detect Recommends to non-free
Jakub,
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Mathieu!
>
> * Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>, 2016-04-28, 08:37:
>>
>> 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
>
>
> 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.
Neat tool ! I did make a report for chocolate-doom BTW.
Seems to working as-is, so at least there is an existing tool, this is
pretty good news.
-M
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