Re: ITP: lirc, devfsd

[Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 10:09:30PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > Similarly, I have packaged devfsd (http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/).
> > This one still needs a couple of problems ironing out first.
> 
> No offense, but I hope you realize the amount of effort that will be
> needed for devfsd. Since it is a key element in our 2.4.x upgrade path,
> the amount of policy and technical bugs will be tremendous (permissions,
> adding support for default compatibility devices, etc..).

Yes this is fine. I have some of these issues sorted out already in my
packaging (eg I parse /sbin/MAKEDEV to get the Debian default permissions
for most devices).

> I just don't want to see anyone go lightly into packaging devfsd. If you
> aren't prepared to take on the responsiblity of what will most likely
> become a base and essential package, leave it for some one else to do.

I think I'll upload my current packaging to experimental so that people can
decide what they think of the packaging solution before I upload it to
unstable.

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Tom <tom@debian.org>

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