Eugene V. Lyubimkin writes ("Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on
non-free/contrib"):
> On 2012-07-17 10:35, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Could someone who has the time and the tools available do a check on all
> > the dependencies in main for dependencies on non-free/contrib? This
> > information would be very helpful in evaluating tech-ctte bug #681419. In
> > particular: [...]
>
> I wrote a small program to list them, please find the (hopefully
> awk'able and hopefully correct) output in attachment.
Thanks a lot.
To turn this into an answer to Russ's questions:
> > * How many total dependencies are there? (We're only interested in
> > Depends or Recommends for this purpose, not Suggests.)
79.
> > * Are all of those dependencies alternative dependencies of the form:
> >
> > Depends: foo | foo-nonfree
> >
> > or are there other cases? A list of the other cases would be very
> > interesting. (Some may just be bugs, but we may not have thought of
> > some other possible pattern.)
Reading your Depends as including Recommends, there is also:
Recommends/Depends: virtual-package
where virtual-package is provided both in main and outside, or
Recommends/Depends: something | virtual-package
likewise. This is what you were proposing to change everything to.
In general the non-free packages don't have names that call them out,
so while your pattern says `foo-nonfree' in fact it's more like
`foo | forkle'.
We also have this:
gscan2pdf: Recommends: 'cuneiform' [choice 1: cuneiform from non-free]
which looks like a bug, which I have filed.
And this:
yagf: Depends: 'cuneiform | tesseract-ocr' [choice 1: cuneiform from non-free]
which is also a bug but a less serious one.
So in summary, excepting one clearly buggy package, the pattern you
give, and the pattern you are proposing to make universal, are the
only ones in existence.
> > * Are any of these dependencies versioned? One of the things we're
> > evaluating is whether it would always be possible to replace those
> > dependencies with a straight dependency on foo, with foo-nonfree
> > Providing foo.
No. Only one of the entries in Eugene's list mentions a version
number and then only in an irrelevant limb of the dependency.
Ian.
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