Bug#698556: Please override isdnutils maintainer's decision to not fix the broken isdnutils package in wheezy

[Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>]

Bdale Garbee wrote...

> Adding a dependency on makedev will work, but since the makedev package
> is long orphaned and there's rarely any reason to have it installed any
> more, I personally wonder if it wouldn't be better to just add
> appropriate mknod calls directly?

With all respect, I disagree.

* This is an NMU, it should be kept as short as possible but already
  is way too huge.
* This is a hack, aimed for wheezy only. For jessie there's enough
  time to come up with better solutions for the entire problem.
* To avoid makedev, I'd just copy the relevant mknod lines to the
  isdnutils package. Honestly, I cannot see the advantages of such
  code duplication.

If you still think makedev should be avoided, I'll happily provide an
updated patch.

Aside, policy 10.6 refers to MAKEDEV which is provided by makedev on
static /dev, not to mknod. But that's not a point, the current wording
of 10.6 is mostly historic and therefore more what you'd call
"guidelines" than actual rules. And there's already a better places
to discuss this.

    Christoph