On Friday 04 November 2005 13:05, José Luis Tallón wrote: > Christoph Haas wrote: >> So the package seems to be unusable by everyone who uses tapes for >> backups, runs a 2.6 Linux kernel and has no tape inserted in the drive >> when the backup starts. Of course I would love to see a fix for this >> problem even in Sarge if possible. Perhaps upstream can deliver a >> patch for the 1.36.2 version? > > It would be nice, but i'm not positive that it really is feasible... why > don't you ask? who knows, it might work.... > (if it is indeed produced, i would prepare an 'stable update' including > it)
That's what the upstream said to my question on the mailing list: ===== If someone is very clever, perhaps one could patch it, otherwise, there is a *really* big difference between the 1.36.x code and the 1.38.0 that deals with this problem. ===== So it's probably not possible/easy. But perhaps you can add a note in the README.Debian? Christoph
