Your message dated Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:55:00 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1064931: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #104254, regarding MAKEDEV is confused because of special formated entries in /proc/devices to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected] immediately.) -- 104254: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=104254 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---Package: makedev Version: 2.3.1-53 Severity: normal Hello, I am running kernel 2.4.6 and discovered a "cosmetical" problem running MAKEDEV. root@zombie:/dev> ./MAKEDEV sg ./MAKEDEV: major_ircomm%d=161: command not found I contacted the maintainer of the package where the message apperared first, and now we see that that the reason are new entries (without a slash) in /proc/devices (s.below) that are not parsed correctly by makedev. If this is a bug in kernel, feel free to forward to the kernel-whatever maintainers. Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty/m%d 3 pty/s%d 4 tts/%d 5 cua/%d 6 lp 7 vcs 10 misc 13 input 14 sound 29 fb 36 netlink 81 video_capture 108 ppp 128 ptm 136 pts/%d 161 ircomm%d 162 raw 180 usb 188 usb/tts/%d 195 nvidia Block devices: 3 ide0 22 ide1 Gr{us,eeting}s, Eduard. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux zombie 2.4.6-pre9 #17 Die Jul 3 15:18:51 CEST 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE Versions of packages makedev depends on: ii base-passwd 3.2.1 Debian Base System Password/Group -- User: Ich hätte gern ein paar MByte Speicher. malloc(): OK. Welche Sicherheiten haben sie?
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2.3.1-97.1+rm Dear submitter, as the package makedev has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1064931 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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