Hi Mathieu!
* Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@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.
--
Jakub Wilk
