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
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