Marco d'Itri wrote:
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 12 packages which have not been fixed yet (the most important one being gnupg). Bugs have already been opened and only need trivial actions from the maintainers.
It was decided that this doesn't warrant to be a Release Goal. For such a small amount of packages using the normal NMU rules if needed should be sufficient to reach the proposed goal.
Cheers Luk for the Release Team