Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> 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 policy) or not (which is the actual truth). >> Some parts of 10.6 might still be considered useful (but I wonder if >> anyone would actually violate it even if it wasn't there these days, >> after all policy can't describe every way to get things wrong so maybe >> the entire chapter should still be considered for removal). > 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 also takes notice of device files outside of /dev, which are > more like named pipes than regular device files and which packages may > need to create for various jailing reasons (like creating a /dev/null > inside your file system namespace). > Comments, seconds? This has now been applied for the next release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
