On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 14:32 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > Package: makedev > Version: 2.3.1-88 > Severity: important > > As far I see, it is very hard to use debian these days without udev, > so makedev has become outdated. If makedev is not to be removed > yet, it should at least not be Priority: required anymore.
That's an interesting suggestion. There are three cases we need to investigate and address before making such a change. One is the use of makedev in package postinst scripts. I don't know offhand what the set of packages are that have an implicit dependency on makedev, those would all need to be updated to make the dependency explicit before we take makedev out of the set of packages assumed to be present on a system. Another is the use of makedev in debootstrap and friends. It at least used to be a necessary part of the build environment for those tools if not the runtime. Adding explicit dependencies or build dependencies to such packages would be required if makedev is no longer assumed to be present on a system. And directly or indirectly through the *debootstrap packages, I assume debian-installer still has a dependency on makedev. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
