[sane-devel] Including the NIASH Backend...

[Julien BLACHE]

Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard@gjaeger.de> wrote:

Hi,

> while checking some patches for SANE, I found that the guys at
> http://packman.links2linux.de create their SANE rpm WITH the
> niash backend. So it's available and somehow used by some
> SuSE users...
> It's also scheduled for inclusion since december 2003
> Question: Why is it still not included?

The backend is packaged in libsane-extras in Debian, and seems to be
working fine from the reports I've got so far.

IIRC it doesn't use sanei_* for usb/scsi access, which would be the
only problem I think, but I may be mixing things up with another
external backend.

JB.

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