Bug#3091: cpio-mt segfaults

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

Simon Shapiro writes ("Bug#3091: cpio-mt segfaults"):
> Hi Michael Meskes;  On 22-May-96 you wrote:
> > Package: cpio-mt
> > Version: 2.4.2-2
> >
> > All I did was 'mt -f /dev/tape fsf 1' resp. 'mt fsf 1'. Both ended in
> > 'Segmentation fault'. BTW this is an SCSI tape.
>
> Is mt in the cpio package?  If so, why?

Because GNU cpio comes with mt, or (looking at it another way), GNU's
mt is in their cpio package.  This doesn't strike me as too bizarre.

Perhaps the package maintainer would like the coredump ?  (I take it
this is not a kernel oops.)

Ian.