move makedev from priority 'required' to priority 'extra' in Debian

[debian/makedev] / debian / control

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9a3cf707db9f8d1b17e44e535b96c4ada5b380c6..b049099d2b5b694ca98a3fbc31458335e2acd494 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 Source: makedev
 Section: admin
-Priority: required
+Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper
-Standards-Version: 3.7.3
+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.