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# `mknod-in-maintainer-script`

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.

Severity: | `error`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Device files (Section 10.6) in the Debian Policy Manual

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag