Bug#698012: debian-policy: Please update 10.6 "Device files" for udev and the like

2017-04-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Andreas Henriksson 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

Re: Bug#698012: debian-policy: Please update 10.6 "Device files" for udev and the like

2017-03-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 at 16:12:53 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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.

Bug#698012: debian-policy: Please update 10.6 "Device files" for udev and the like

2017-03-01 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 04:12:53PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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

Bug#698012: debian-policy: Please update 10.6 "Device files" for udev and the like

2017-02-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Henriksson 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

Bug#698012: debian-policy: Please update 10.6 "Device files" for udev and the like

2017-01-24 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello, Trying to bring this old issue back to life. In recent years things have changed so that it's not actually udev that creates the device nodes anymore, but the kernel (via devtmpfs). I don't think it's policys place to describe the actual implementation details (which might change and we

Bug#698012: debian-policy: Please update 10.6 Device files for udev and the like

2013-03-08 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertags 698012 normative discussion thanks Le Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 09:00:48PM +0100, Christoph Biedl a écrit : recently I stumbled over the following paragraph in 10.6: If a package needs any special device files that are not included in the

Bug#698012: debian-policy: Please update 10.6 Device files for udev and the like

2013-01-12 Thread Christoph Biedl
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Hi, recently I stumbled over the following paragraph in 10.6: If a package needs any special device files that are not included in the base system, it must call MAKEDEV in the postinst script, after notifying the user. and I think it needs an