Bug 605618

Summary:	app-arch/mt-st move to sys-block/mt-st
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jonas Stein <jstein>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2017-01-13 22:28:00 UTC

"The app-arch category contains tools for archiving, compressing and uncompressing files or groups of files."

"The app-backup category contains tools for performing backups of data,
including both full and incremental backups, as well as backups to other
media (CD-R, Tape, etc.)."

mt sends only commands to the tape drive like eject, rewind..., but does not compress files itself.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-01-13 23:14:26 UTC

So you don't have a clue what archiving means.

Comment 2 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2017-01-14 14:41:27 UTC

Jeroen, I agree with you that "app-arch" and "app-backup" are not the ideal category names. But mt does not archive, or compress it is rather a tool for hardware commands like tape eject...

All other packages in app-arch are compressing them self like zip.
In my oppinion it would rather fit to app-backup (only because it has "tape" in the description) and perhaps even better to sys-block.

The packages in sys-block are very similar to mt.

Please have a second look at it.

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-01-14 15:00:53 UTC

(In reply to Jonas Stein from comment #2)
> All other packages in app-arch are compressing them self like zip.

You're wrong about that, too.