Re: Will woody ever become stable?

[Jochen Voss <jvoss2@web.de>]

Hi,

> I have an NMU prepared which takes the conservative approach (one line
> change, test -e instead of test -f).  The correct thing to do in the long
> term is to use MAKEDEV, but that can wait until after woody is released.

I would favour MAKEDEV, because MAKEFLOPPIES seems to be seriously
broken.  When I do "rm /dev/fd[01]*" my i386 system, then
"MAKEFLOPPIES -g" did create the wrong device files for
my system.  It needed a second call to MAKEFLOPPIES to fix this.

Jochen
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