Package: udev Version: 160-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream /dev/tape should be a symlink to the default tape drive.
This has been reported, argued, and claimed resolved as bug #499152, yet the bug persists. New users (like me) trying to figure out how to use their tape drive do not want to have to manually track down and pass as parameters obtuse things such as /dev/st0 or, got forbid, /dev/tape/by-path/pci-0000:2c:09.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 Old user do not want to have to update their old backup scripts. I'm grateful to the udev developers for their work, but as a new, unjaded user, I feel udev should fix the mess it has caused. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.35 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libudev0 160-1 libudev shared library ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-15 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii util-linux 2.17.2-3.1 Miscellaneous system utilities Versions of packages udev recommends: ii pciutils 1:3.1.7-5 Linux PCI Utilities ii usbutils 0.87-5 Linux USB utilities udev suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
