[sane-devel] Epson 4490 in Debian

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Jun 13 13:30 Till Kamppeter wrote (shortened):
> Johannes Meixner wrote:
> > Some time ago I got a nice patch from Dirk O. Siebnich
> > from which I made our patch to build our iscan-free package
> > which is a really free version of the epkowa backend
> > (this means the /usr/bin/iscan frontend was also removed
> > because it requires a non-free library).
...
> I have seen it on our OpenSuSE mirror here at Mandrive.

Note that our current iscan-free is still based upon
iscan-1.18.0-1.c2.tar.gz - i.e. it is not yet updated
to the current Iscan version.


> What I have done
> now is suggesting to the upstream developers to make two packages, one
> with the frontend and one with the backend, to be more distro-friendly.
> I have no answer yet, lets see what they say.

Be prepared to be very patient - I asked this since 14 Jul 2004,
see the shortened mail at the bottom :-(
I like to emphasize that it is not Olaf Meeuwissen who is to blame
that there is almost no progress here.

Perhaps it helps the Epson Avasys decision makers to make the right
decisions when all (or at least almost all) Linux distributors
demand the same thing.


By the way:
The same problem exists for the Epson Avasys printer drivers
"pips" and "pipslite".


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:09:51 +0200 (CEST)
From: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de>
To: Olaf Meeuwissen <[...]>
Cc:  <lsm-printing at linuxprinting.org>
Subject: Re: [lsm-printing] Summary of the printing summit


Hello Olaf,

[...]

I have a request for the future:

[...]

Shouldn't it be possible that Epson Kowa does a package split
into the free part and the proprietary part
and change the free part software so that it can work with
and without the proprietary modules.

Then we could add this free package to our default system.
Then we could install the free package by default.
Then the free package would work on any hardware architecture.

[...]
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