On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 04:24:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Package: heartbeat
> Version: 2.1.4-7
> Severity: serious
> User: lintian-ma...@debian.org
> Usertags: mknod-in-maintainer-script
> 
> Justification: Maintainer scripts must not create device files directly.
> 
> Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 10.6 (Device files) for details. 

Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the
package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script
the consensus that this was the best option available.




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