Control: severity -1 serious
This has been discussed on IRC. On #debian-til which is not the proper
channel, but with at least one FTPmaster present.
Alas, this was our undoing:
14:35 < lamby> To avoid stepping on each other's toes, which of us is going
to file that in the BTS? :)
as ultimately no one did.
Besides the practical issue of nagging breaking scripts (#884793), requiring
a fee (citation or €10000) is a very obvious breach of the DFSG. That you
can fool the check by technical means, creating a file with a false promise,
is no different from fooling license checks in proprietary software.
This requirement wasn't present when the package passed FTPmaster review.
Note that parallel's functionality is also provided by moreutils and xargs
-P, thus moving the package out of main would be just an inconvenience (four
packages need to be adjusted: roary last-align freebayes symfony).
Meow!
--
⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ So a Hungarian gypsy mountainman, lumberjack by day job,
⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ brigand by, uhm, hobby, invented a dish: goulash on potato
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ pancakes. Then the Polish couldn't decide which of his
⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ adjectives to use for the dish's name.
