libsane has to depend on libsane-extras ?
Hi, I hope I'm posting to the right list about this subject.
When trying to get working my Epson scanner which is only supported by
the iscan driver, I find out that on Debian Lenny libsane depends on
libsane-extras, and libsane-extras is getting in the way of iscan
install (they are both providing /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1 ).
I did the install on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 64 (requires to do a custom
compil of iscan which isn't available as a .deb and even less for 64bit)
and had no problem. But when trying to do the same on Lenny 64 I ran
into this issue and wondered why libsane-extras has to be dragged along
with libsane since most of the time it's not really required.
I got the issue worked-around by creating a .deb of iscan and "dpkg -i
--force-overwrite" it, but it's dirty, apt is going to complain on next
libsane-extras update and possibly break everything.
Can someone enlighten me about the necessity of libsane-extras when
"extras" should only be that ?
Thanks,
Tom
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