librrd0-dev missing from Ubuntu - intention or accident?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 12:11:06PM -0500, Martin Maney wrote:

> Of the four debs built from that source, I only see librrd0 and
> librrds-perl in Ubuntu this morning.  librrd0-dev will arrive in due
> time (BTW, how often do these resyncs happen?).

They currently happen when James gets around to it.

> librrdp-perl might or might not be considered another overlooked
> "dev-like" package.  From the description, it appears to be an analog of
> librrds-perl with a different API.

There is no reason to use librrdp-perl in Ubuntu; it is intended for
platforms where the shared library implementation does not work correctly.

> Oh!  And when I tried to run sensors-detect, I found that the
> /dev/i2c-* devices weren't present.  There's a script buried several
> layers deep in the source tree to create them, but the Debian packaging
> doesn't include it.  My guess is... wait, I have a fairly bare-bones
> Sarge install I can check.  Hmmm.  Okay, the i2c device nodes don't
> seem to be installed as part of the base.  I'm not sure where they're
> created, but I've never, that I can recall, missed them when using
> lm-sensors under Debian... not that I claim to recall much at all from
> as far back as bo, or even hamm.  :-)

They should be created by the kernel via udev when the corresponding modules
are loaded.

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 - mdz