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

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 21ab36df4f96bb79b481871298379ea448bc09f2..1fbf9f38a5760e6db6b778259e9d1c5678044ae9 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 makedev (2.3.1-89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
+  * move to priority extra, closes: #522048
   * use dpkg --print-architecture instead of deprecated form, closes: #536540
 
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:31:20 -0500
+ -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:31:20 +0200
 
 makedev (2.3.1-88) unstable; urgency=low
 

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.