New SANE packages : take #2 (was: Re: SANE packages unmaintained...)

[Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>]

jhf@rivenstone.net (Joseph Fannin) wrote:

Hi,

>     I would *love* to see the backend packaged as a part of Debian,
> especially since the Windows drivers provided by HP don't even work
> anymore.  The 4200C is the most expensive piece of crap I've ever
> bought, and this backend is the only thing that makes it usable -- but
> that's another story.

A second revision of the SANE 1.0.8 packages is up on
people.debian.org.

With apt :
deb http://people.debian.org/~jblache/SANE unstable main
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~jblache/SANE unstable main

For stable binaries (sources are the same) :
deb http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/SANE stable main


New in this revision :
 - sane-utils package containing sane-find-scanner, saned and
   scanimage. The package creates saned system user and group in its
   postinst ;
 - libsane-extras package containing 4 backends not (yet) included in
   the regular SANE distribution :
    * hp4200
    * niash (hp3300c, hp3400c, hp4300c, Agfa snapscan)
    * gt68xx
    * tevion9693usb
 - some small bugfixes (manpages, ...)

>     Is there anything I can do to help?

Grab the new packages, especially libsane-extras, and test the hp4200
backend :)

libsane-dev in this revision lacks a Depends: on libsane-extras, this
will be fixed in -3.

Thanks,

JB.

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