makedev is now priority extra
Bug #545309 causes me to realize that the recent lowering of priority
for makedev to 'extra' motivates a review and update of policy section
10.6.
Given udev, the majority of Debian systems in the future are unlikely to
have makedev installed at all. There may be enough usage cases for
static devices to motivate keeping it around at priority extra instead
of requesting it be removed entirely, but it no longer seems appropriate
for policy to mandate the use of MAKEDEV.
Also, note that all packages above priority extra that depend on makedev
are now buggy with respect to policy section 2.5.
Bdale
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