severity 393575 important reassign 393575 lirc,makedev thanks On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:53:48AM +0200, Héctor García Álvarez wrote:
> El lun, 16-10-2006 a las 23:22 +0200, Aurelien Jarno escribió: > > Package: lirc > > Version: 0.8.0-7 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: Policy 10.6 > > Maintainer scripts should not create device files directly. They should > > call makedev instead. Refer to Policy Manual, section 10.6 for details. > >From the BTS reference: > serious > is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a > "must" or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's > opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release. > Obviously a "should" it is not a "must" nor a "required". > Also this bug doesn't make the package unsuitable for release. > Therefor I'm lowering the severity to normal. > Thanks for reporting this bug, we'll try to fix it as soon as we can. Actually, the use of mknod directly is normally considered RC, per <http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt>. In this case it's not RC, because MAKEDEV doesn't know about /dev/lirc and therefore can't be used to create it. So I'm reassigning this bug to both packages for resolution, and leaving it at non-RC severity. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
