On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 03:51:11PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > The new makedev package is erasing people's /dev/ directories. Apparently > the maintainer script has a bug that causes /dev/ to become a file which > makes dpkg erase /dev/ and replace it with a file.. Bugs all round. > > Since this is rather serious, I have erased makedev from potato/bianry-all > - a copy of the .deb is in my home dir. I have also purged it from the > primary mirrors. Daniel Jacobowitz has NMU'd it just now as well. > > Jason > Debian Admin > > Well, which version of makedev does this affect? I have 2.3.1-26 installed, and am not experiencing problems.
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