Source: makedev
-Section: base
-Priority: required
-Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
-Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper
-Standards-Version: 3.6.2.1
+Section: admin
+Priority: extra
+Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5)
+Standards-Version: 3.9.3
+Vcs-Git: git://git.gag.com/debian/makedev
+Vcs-Browser: http://git.gag.com/?p=debian/makedev
Package: makedev
Architecture: all
-Depends: base-passwd (>= 3.0.4)
+Depends: base-passwd (>= 3.0.4), ${misc:Depends}
Conflicts: udev (<= 0.024-7)
Description: creates device files in /dev
The MAKEDEV executable is used to create device files, often in /dev.
.
Device files are special files through which applications can interact
with hardware.
+ .
+ This package is not necessary for most modern Linux systems, where the udev
+ subsystem provides a more dynamic mechanism for device file management.