Buildd policy WRT non-free build dependencies?

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

These four packages currently fail to build on mips (and others):

-- contrib packages which b-d on non-free packages --
motv            # needs libmotif-dev, orphaned, #379256
suitesparse-metis # needs libparmetis-dev, RC bug #478179
octave-gpc      # needs libgpcl-dev
sivp            # needs scilab-bin

The reason seems to be that the majority of buildds don't consider
non-free packages as build dependencies. Regardless of the intended
policy I believe this needs to be addressed for the release.


Thiemo