Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source
On Mon 15 Aug 2016 at 19:05:55 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 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
I haven't tested the method on that page extensively but a first glance
seems to indicate there is a missing step or two. Don't take this as
gospel though.
> 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.
apt-get source libsane-common/testing
actually downloads the sane-backends source package.
> I'll try later and report back.
My report is that backporting libsame-common works for me. I cannot
instill more confidence than that. :)
> Why does one use Sid when the package is available in Stretch??
By all means replace unstable with testing in the commands I gave. I
tend to use unstable because it is the latest and, in any case, testing
has the same version for the source package, so it doesn't matter.
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