Re: new udev and makedev packages

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:53:58AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> They are available at http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/.
> *Please* test them before I will upload them to the archive, I want to
> be sure that they will not break.
> 
> makedev (2.3.1-70) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
>   * NMU to move /etc/udev/.dev/ to /.dev/, Conflict with udev <= 0.024-7.
>   * Do not fail if /proc is not mounted. (Closes: #246421)

Running lintian...
W: makedev source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number 2.3.1-70

Should be 2.3.1-69.1

Otherwise looks okay to me (but I don't use udev, so couldn't test the
full implications of this change.

> udev (0.024-8) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
>   * Removed MAKEDEV-wrapper and Conflict with makedev <= 2.3.1-69.
>     (Closes: #245441)
>   * /etc/udev/.dev/ moved to /.dev/. (Closes: #246592)
>     If you do not want to see it anyway, just rmdir it.
>     You will have to manually remove /etc/udev/.dev/ after the next reboot.
>     You want to reboot soon anyway because MAKEDEV has been updated to look
>     for the new directory.
>   * Added a script to create by default a /dev/cdrom symlink, courtesy of
>     Michal ?iha?. (Closes: #247179)
>   * Added Japanese debconf template translation. (Closes: #245434)
>   * Add /dev/misc/nvram to devfs.rules. (Closes: #246125)
>   * Fixed the group of /dev/fb*. (Closes: #246011)
>   * When installing on a devfs system enable compat-full.rules if
>     /dev/tty1 exists. (Closes: #251146)
>   * Removed support for $udev_root from the init script. (Closes: #249183)
>   * Do not start udev if the kernel lacks tmpfs support. (Closes: #250476)
>   * Make the nvram device g+rw and owned by group nvram.

Lintian says amongst others:

W: udev: no-manpage-in-correct-directory usr/bin/udevinfo (8)
W: udev: no-manpage-in-correct-directory usr/bin/udevtest (8)

Manpages for programs in /usr/bin are in section 8, either the program
should be /usr/sbin, i.e. a system administration program, or the
manpage should be in section one, since apparantly non-root users use it
too.

--Jeroen

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