Package: udev Version: 0.125-6 Severity: normal Since way back in the mists of time, /dev/tape has been a symlink pointing to the device file for the default tape drive. Now without warning, /dev/tape has changed: it's now a directory of symlinks to tape devices.
This change has broken all of my backup scripts that assume /dev/tape. Maybe more important, it has also broken /bin/mt (from the mt-st package), which assumes /dev/tape as its tape device, based on the value of DEFTAPE in /usr/include/sys/mtio.h. I suppose that we can all change our scripts and adapt to this change, but I don't see why it was necessary at all. Couldn't the new directory of symlinks have been named /dev/tapes? Thanks, Andrew. -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 192 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-03-06 23:36 001_local-if.rules -> ../local-if.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-03-06 23:36 001_local-misc.rules -> ../local-misc.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1547 2008-07-16 05:29 024_hpmud.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-03-11 02:35 025_libgphoto2.rules -> ../libgphoto2.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-03-11 02:35 025_logitechmouse.rules -> ../logitechmouse.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115 2008-07-16 05:29 45-hplip.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3586 2008-08-08 05:43 50-udev.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115 2008-07-16 05:29 55-hpmud.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1543 2008-08-08 05:43 60-persistent-input.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4554 2008-08-08 05:43 60-persistent-storage.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1582 2008-08-08 05:43 60-persistent-storage-tape.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 523 2008-08-08 05:43 60-persistent-v4l.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75 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System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.65-4 SELinux shared libraries ii libvolume-id0 0.125-6 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip udev recommends no packages. udev suggests no packages. -- debconf information: udev/new_kernel_needed: false udev/reboot_needed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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