I propose that packages depending on makedev for the purpose of creating device nodes in /dev/[1] are modified to depend on "udev | makedev". Most of them already do, there are about 10 packages which have not been fixed yet (the only important one being gnupg). Bugs have already been opened and only need trivial actions from the maintainers. This is not a proposal to remove makedev from the base system. A list with some false positives[1] can be generated with: grep-dctrl -s Package,Depends --field=Depends makedev --and --not --field=Depends udev /var/lib/dpkg/available [1] other packages may use makedev for different reasons and this proposal does not apply to them -- ciao, Marco
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