Christian Kurz wrote: > You mean qmail and ucspi-tcp? No, this is then no bug as the source are > available and debian-user can build binary-packages for themself. Debian > can't distributed binary package for this software as the license does > not allow this. So I will close this bug.
Then could you at least mention this fact in the package description? I asked Joseph Carter the same thing about his liglide2-v3 package. I think something like "This package intentionally depends on two packages not found in the Debian distribution because they are so non-free that only their sources can be distributed, not their binaries. In order to meet these dependencies, please install the qmail-src and ucspi-tcp-src packages, which will enable you to build the qmail and ucspi-tcp packages." would be very useful. And it might prevent well-intentioned but ignorant folks like me from making the same mistake in the future. Thanks. -- Brian Kimball
