Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 15 August 2016 14:25:58 Brian wrote:
> A good guide to backporting is at
>
>   https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/15/howto-to-rebuild-debian-packages/
>
> A deb-src line in sources.list for unstable is needed to do
>
>   apt-get source libsane-common/unstable
>
> Then
>
>   apt-get build-deps libsane-common/unstable
>
> should get the dependencies from stable to build libsane-common and
> libsane.
>  

Thank you, Brian.  That sounds great.  

I had been following this (mutatis mutandis)
https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation
but had got stuck on
https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation#Find_and_Install_missing_build_dependencies_as__found_in_debian.2Fcontrol
And went to do other jobs before tackling it again, and googling as neccesary. 

Yours sounds much simpler.  libsane-common doesn't seem to have many 
dependencies, but I though I mighty have to backport the whole of 
sane-backends, largely because I was a bit at sea.

I'll try later and report back.  

Why does one use Sid when the package is available in Stretch??

Lisi