Bug#728292: sane-backends
Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> writes:
> What is the status of sane backends in mentors ? I see at least a
> lintian error.
I have a sponsor. I've got it building on kfreebsd-amd64 and
linux-amd64, and it works well enough (under Linux) for me to scan with
my Canon MX-450 scanner (which, let's face it, is the most important
thing in the universe wrt scanners). I have a Hurd VM to build it on but
haven't actually done so.
My plan is this:
(1) Package a current snapshot and keep it updated regularly to avoid
big nasty surprises when a new release comes out.
(2) Fix or try to fix all lintian errors and warnings.
(?) Reduce the number of patches by submitting them upstream if
appropriate.
(?) Match up our bugs to upstream bugs, filing new ones if necessary,
and if it's not a big deal, backporting fixes.
But I'm stuck on (1), because sane-project.org has been down (same
reason as alioth?) for a while, and I have been using that as an excuse
for procrastination. All it would take to get me to do (2) before (1) is
somebody asking nicely. It doesn't even have to be all that nice,
actually, just non-nasty.
--
Mark Buda <hermit@acm.org>
I get my monkeys for nothing and my chimps for free.
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