clean up a handful of lintian whines

[debian/makedev] / debian / control

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1b2d0186f9b3e88c595228b889a2002cebddac8e..9f6904a2d65570adb30537116b0bfacc9800d181 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 Source: makedev
-Section: base
-Priority: required
+Section: admin
+Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
-Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper
-Standards-Version: 3.6.2.1
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5)
+Standards-Version: 3.8.2
 
 Package: makedev
 Architecture: all
@@ -14,3 +14,6 @@ Description: creates device files 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.