ITP: mt-st - a version of mt with Linux's SCSI driver extensions

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Here's the LSM entry for mt-st:

  Begin4
  Title:          mt-st
  Version:        0.6
  Entered-date:   2000-11-30
  Description:    Includes a mt-like program supporting additional
  commands using ioctls specific to the Linux SCSI tape driver (up
  to kernel 2.4.0), and the program stinit to define the SCSI tape
  devices in system startup scripts.
  Keywords:       tape SCSI
  Author:         Kai.Makisara@metla.fi (Kai Makisara)
  Maintained-by:  Kai.Makisara@metla.fi (Kai Makisara)
  Primary-site:   ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/backup
                  34  kB mt-st-0.6.tar.gz
                  0.7 kB mt-st-0.6.lsm
  Copying-policy: GPL
  End

Initially this package will divert /usr/bin/mt (from cpio) but
eventually the choice between mt-gnu and mt-st should be handled by
alternatives...

Proposed section: admin, priority: extra.

Phil.