On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:31:23AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Just so people don't think this is being completely neglected...
>
> I've built a preliminary package, and then discovered that it can't cope
> with devfs. Super.
> I've sent a number of emails to upstream, ranging from "Hi, I'm going to
> package up your software for Debian" to "Hey, this thing doesn't work with
> devfs, I'll write a patch", without hearing a peep back.
> I'm planning on writing a patch to allow it to work with devfs, but in the
> meantime I'll probably enhance the current package to detect the presence of
> devfs and do something intelligent (like fail elegantly), and then upload
> it as is.
Devfs being deprecated in linux 2.6, IMHO writing a patch is a waste of effort.
Regards
. Siggy
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