Hello, recently I took over the fdutils package and now I'm in the process of fixing bugs in the package. The most pressing problem is device file creation: the version of fdutils in testing uses some home-grown script, which uses mknod to create device files, in the postinst. I think this violates section 11.6 of policy and so I try to use MAKEDEV instead. (Note that I know of bug #130748) My questions are 1) Is it really necessary for fdutils to create device files. Matt Zimmermann argues at http://bugs.debian.org/130473 that the device nodes are created by debootstrap. So it seems sensible that I just could remove the whole device creation mess. 2) If I need to create floppy devices, would cd /dev && /sbin/MAKEDEV fd0 fd1 be the correct way to do this? The "fd0 fd1" seems a little bit an ad hoc construction. What do you think? Jochen -- http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/
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