Bug#698012: debian-policy: Please update 10.6 "Device files" for udev and the like
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se> writes:
>> I don't think it's policys place to describe the actual implementation
>> details (which might change and we really don't care that much).
>> Instead only focus on if package maintainers needs to take special care
>> (like currently described in policy) or not (which is the actual truth).
>> Some parts of 10.6 might still be considered useful (but I wonder if
>> anyone would actually violate it even if it wasn't there these days,
>> after all policy can't describe every way to get things wrong so maybe
>> the entire chapter should still be considered for removal).
> I propose the following section to completely replace this section. This
> preserves what I think are the still-useful requirements while making it
> clear that nearly all packages should keep their hands off of /dev
> entirely. It also takes notice of device files outside of /dev, which are
> more like named pipes than regular device files and which packages may
> need to create for various jailing reasons (like creating a /dev/null
> inside your file system namespace).
> Comments, seconds?
This has now been applied for the next release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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