Comment 2 for bug 21059

Hi Colin, you are quite right: it seems that a handful of
packages on my system were old backports that somehow
managed to hang around, not being replaced when I moved to
breezy. In the case of hotplug, the breezy package was not
installed because dpkg considers 0.0.20040329-16ubuntu2-4.10ubp2
to be more recent than 0.0.20040329-22ubuntu11.

I've now upgraded (downgraded as far as dpkg is concerned) all
packages to the breezy versions and everything is fine:
/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug contains udevsend and firmware loading
works correctly.

So please feel free to close this bug.

All the best,

Duncan.