Comment 16 for bug 20573

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:40:01PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jul 11, Matthew Wilcox <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> > But ... makedev is Priority: required, even in sid. And Policy says
> > that removing a package marked as required "may cause your system to
> > become totally broken and you may not even be able to use dpkg to put
> > things back, so only do so if you know what you are doing". udev is
> > still merely optional.
> It's time to start making the changes needed in a world where makedev is
> optional and udev is required.

That seems premature. Right now, ppp is broken and won't install on sid
because of this change. It would have worked fine with /sbin/MAKEDEV
because makedev (being required) is configured and installed before ppp.

So could you revert this change and use /sbin/MAKEDEV instead for the
moment, then work with whoever needs to care to make udev a required
package?