Lintian tag information: mknod-in-maintainer-script (type: error)

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

Maintainer scripts must not create device files directly. They should call
MAKEDEV instead.

If mknod is being used to create a FIFO (named pipe), use mkfifo instead
to avoid triggering this tag.

Please refer to Device files (Section 10.6) in the Debian Policy Manual
for details.

Visibility: error
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Check: maintainer-scripts/mknod

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