tags 873395 + wontfix retitle 873395 lintian: check for non-free dependencies in packages targeting main thanks
Hi Drew, > A recent build of libdolfin2017.1 (i.e. dolfin 2017.1.0-1 in main) > accidentally resulted in a dependency on a non-free package, > libparmetis4.0 Unfortunately, Lintian does not "know" about the state of the archive; it does not query any local APT repository and, pretty obviously, it cannot check remotely on each invocation. I am therefore marking this as "wontfix". I agree this would be a nice check to have, but as it can be caught by the ftpmasters it is not the end of the world that Lintian is not in a position to warn about such things. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-