Bug#543163: lvm2: Please don't depend on udev

[Pierre Ynard]

Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.51-1
Severity: wishlist


Starting with version 2.02.51-1, lvm2 depends on udev (through dmsetup).
I run a server with a custom kernel, no USB support, in which no one
ever plugs anything, and that works very well with static configuration.
I don't want or need to run udev on that server, and so far my simple LVM
setup has worked very well without it.

Please consider allowing to use LVM without udev. What changes happened
in the last version that would require dmsetup and udev?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.2-grsec
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.9-25      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1           2:1.02.36-2 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libreadline5                 5.2-5       GNU readline and history libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-23      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages lvm2 recommends:
pn  dmsetup                       <none>     (no description available)

lvm2 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  lvm2/snapshots:
  lvm2/kernel: