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Bug#971956: release-notes: SANE and driverless scanning



Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Sun 14 Mar 2021 at 17:01:14 +0000, Justin B Rye wrote:
>>>> Driverless scanning is the ability to scan without using a vendor
>>>> backend driver, free or non-free. [...]
>>
>> It all looks okay.  "Vendor backend driver" is a strange expression,
>> but it seems to be what people are used to!
> 
> Does this work better?
> 
>   Driverless scanning is the ability to scan without requiring a
>   free or non-free backend driver that depends on the particular
>   scanner model.

People might stumble on the "that depends" part... could we say:

    Driverless scanning is the ability to scan without requiring a
    free or non-free backend driver specific to that scanner model.

-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package


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