Missing libsane package in Trixie
I have a Brother multi function printer & scanner (MFC-J6720DW). This worked
well under Bookworm both as printer and scanner. I bought it in 2008, it does
not get high usage.
Scanning worked nicely with xsane.
It needs some proprietary driver from Bother.
Printing works under Trixie. I have a problem with scanning. When I run the
Brother script it tries to install libsane. Libsane exists on Bookworm but not
Trixie. Both Trixie and Bookworm have package libsane1
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libsane1
Libsane is described as a "transitional package"
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/libsane
• Could I just grab the source of libsane & compile it ?
• Could I grab the Bullseye libsane & just install on Trixie ?
• Why is it not available in Trixie ?
Installation fails thus:
Setting up brscan-skey (0.3.2-0) ...
apt-get install libusb-0.1-4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
brscan-skey : Depends: libsane (>= 1.0.11-3) but it is not installable
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