Bug#60694: vchkpw depends on nonexistent packages

[Brian Kimball <bfk@footbag.org>]

Christian Kurz wrote:

> You mean qmail and ucspi-tcp? No, this is then no bug as the source are
> available and debian-user can build binary-packages for themself. Debian
> can't distributed binary package for this software as the license does
> not allow this. So I will close this bug.

Then could you at least mention this fact in the package description?  I
asked Joseph Carter the same thing about his liglide2-v3 package.  I
think something like "This package intentionally depends on two packages
not found in the Debian distribution because they are so non-free that
only their sources can be distributed, not their binaries.  In order to
meet these dependencies, please install the qmail-src and ucspi-tcp-src
packages, which will enable you to build the qmail and ucspi-tcp
packages." would be very useful.  And it might prevent well-intentioned
but ignorant folks like me from making the same mistake in the future.

Thanks.

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Brian Kimball