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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> writes:

>> 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.

Good point.  Take my advice as being a post-wheezy suggestion,
until/unless the kernel and udev get the device entries for ISDN right.

> 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.

Yes.  Policy clearly needs to be updated in this area.  

Bdale

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