* Eriberto Mota <eribe...@debian.org> [250224 20:56]: > On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:11:29 +0100 > Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> wrote: > > > * Eriberto Mota <eribe...@debian.org> [250224 18:10]: > > > > Package: inxi > > > > Version: 3.3.37-1-1 > > > > Severity: serious > > > > > > > > Your package depends on "dnsutils", which is not available anymore. > > > > Please switch to "bind9-dnsutils". > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > Hi Chris, > > > > > > The inxi only recommends the dnsutils, not depending on it. What do you > > > think about lowering the severity to important? > > > > AFAIK this is still forbidden. > > > Recommends field will not install an uninstallable package and it won't > break the inxi install. You say "inxi: not installable due to missing > dnsutils", but it is not occurring since Recommends will ignore the > dnsutils.
I've now asked the release team, and they say Debian Policy 2.2.1 must be fulfilled in testing. | 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, | Build-Depends-Indep, or Build-Depends-Arch relationship on a | non-main package unless that package is only listed as a non-default | alternative for a package in main), This seems to be the case here. > > > This bug is affecting the forensics-extra package. > > > > Why not fix the bug? > > Because Unit 193 is an active DD and making an NMU against a bug not > serious is a bit unnecessary/aggressive. Okay, but why did they not fix the bug? We're wasting more time emailing about it than it probably would take to fix the bug. Chris
