Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:23:56PM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote:
> > (In other words, why is Potato broken when it is supposed to be a stable
> > distro?)
>
> debian does not use a package full of nodes, instead it uses
> the /dev/MAKEDEV script like traditional *nix. it has not yet been
> updated to include these devices (since they just appeared in 2.2.18
> and 2.4) as to why these nodes are needed that is due to Dan's
> decision to enable the new input layer in the new kernel for 2.2r2.
> unfortuantly i think perhaps that should have waited for woody.
Sure, but as has been acknowledged, the kernel with the new input layer
should have had a dependency on a new makedev package including the new
nodes, which has yet to be provided at all. This is very serious breakage in
a stable distro, and should really have been tested, it is causing a lot of
users a lot of pain.
As I said to Bastien a couple of weeks ago, expect many more posts of this
type for the next month or two. [To which he replied with some four-letter
words and "If you can't read the documentation, don't use Linux," even though
to get things working at all one has to go to some random webpage not linked
from any system docs including kernel-doc, and read every minute detail- as
opposed to skimming it, which every sane human does who values their time at
all. But that's not important.]
-Adam P.
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