Re: cpio-2.4.2-2 uploaded (new version of mt for SCSI tapes)

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Brian Mays writes ("cpio-2.4.2-2 uploaded (new version of mt for SCSI tapes)"):
> Attention SCSI tape users:
> 
> I've modified GNU mt (from the GNU cpio package) to support the SCSI
> tape features provided by the mt-st package.  However, since I do not
> have a SCSI tape drive myself, I have no way to test these new
> features.  Therefore, I need those users with SCSI tape drives to
> please test this new version of mt and send me feedback.  Thanks.
...
>  cpio: GNU cpio: a program to manage archives of files.
>  cpio-mt: GNU mt: control magnetic tape drive operation.

I think this is really getting excessively granular, to borrow someone
else's term.

Couldn't you just release all of this in the cpio package itself, and
have it Conflict and Replace the old mt-st package ?  Then we could
put mt-st in an attic somewhere and remove it if it really turns out
not to be needed.

Thanks,
Ian.