Bug#971896: amavisd-new: Recommends unavailable package ripole

[Mathias Behrle]

Package: amavisd-new
Version: 1:2.11.0-6.1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

package ripole is not available in buster, but still listed in Recommends.

Cheers
Mathias


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental'), (500,
'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages amavisd-new depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.74
ii file 1:5.38-5
ii init-system-helpers 1.58
pn libarchive-tar-perl <none>
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
pn libberkeleydb-perl <none>
pn libconvert-tnef-perl <none>
pn libconvert-uulib-perl <none>
pn libdigest-md5-perl <none>
ii libio-stringy-perl 2.111-3
pn libmail-dkim-perl <none>
ii libmailtools-perl 2.21-1
pn libmime-base64-perl <none>
ii libmime-tools-perl 5.509-1
pn libnet-libidn-perl <none>
pn libnet-server-perl <none>
pn libunix-syslog-perl <none>
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
pn pax <none>
ii perl [libtime-hires-perl] 5.30.3-4

Versions of packages amavisd-new recommends:
pn altermime <none>
pn libnet-patricia-perl <none>
pn ripole <none>

Versions of packages amavisd-new suggests:
ii apt-listchanges 3.22
pn arj <none>
pn cabextract <none>
pn clamav <none>
pn clamav-daemon <none>
ii cpio 2.13+dfsg-4
pn dspam <none>
pn lhasa <none>
ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1600-1
pn libdbi-perl <none>
pn libmail-dkim-perl <none>
pn libnet-ldap-perl <none>
pn libsnmp-perl <none>
pn libzeromq-perl <none>
ii lzop 1.04-1
pn nomarch <none>
ii p7zip 16.02+dfsg-8
ii rpm 4.14.2.1+dfsg1-1.1+b1
pn spamassassin <none>
pn unrar <none>

[c***@allfreemail.net]

Source: amavisd-new
Version: 1:2.13.0-6
Justification: 2.2.1
Followup-For: Bug #971896
Control: severity -1 serious

Dear Maintainer,

recommending a package that is not present in debian main is considered
a violation of a 'must' directive of the debian policy, which carries a
'serious' severity for bug reports.

Debian policy [1] states:
"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)"

Please review your package dependencies so that they are aligned with
the debian policy. Thanks.

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-main-archive-area