Bug#685376: postinst fails on non-default Debian kernels and is useless on =3.4

2012-08-25 Thread Steve Cotton
Package: makedev On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:54:54PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: But then the if condition still has to be updated, as it won't trigger with [3.0..3.4[ Much of that postinst seems to be workarounds written in 2005 or earlier. I think this conditional block could be removed

Bug#685376: postinst fails on non-default Debian kernels and is useless on =3.4

2012-08-20 Thread Evgeni Golov
Package: makedev Version: 2.3.1-91 Severity: serious Hi, the debian/postinst of makedev currently contains the following code: # force update of fb devices if kernel is Linux = 2.4 and they already exist kern_rev1=`uname -r | sed -e 's@^\([^.]*\)\..*@\1@'` kern_rev2=`uname -r | sed -e