Bug#969235: sane-airscan: Please consider ipp-usb as a recommended package
Package: sane-airscan
Version: 0.99.15-1
Severity: wishlist
ipp-usb is recommended by cups-daemon, so a user with a default CUPS
installation will have it on the system. Scanning from an MFD device
should easily be possible when sane-escl (in libsane1) is also on the
system. A user should therefore have effortless use of driverless
printing and scanning.
It is possible that a user also installs sane-airscan. For an MFD, this
would give an alternative driverless scanning backend. This could be
beneficial and, in fact, is recommended on the wiki. All ok up to here.
Suppose CUPS is not installed. Installing sane-airscan does not get a
user easy access to a USB connected device unless ipp-usb is on the
system. I would suggest a recommended ipp-scan to sane-airscan would
enhance a user's experience.
Regards,
Brian.
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