[sane-devel] Epson 4490 in Debian

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> writes:

> 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.

May I suggest you skip iscan-2.0.0 because iscan-2.1.0 is due for
release Real Soon Now.

>> 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.

Seeing that we now have SUSE, Mandriva and Debian all together on the
same channel and we are drifting out of the SANE area, maybe we should
take this off list and drag in some of those "decision makers".

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

I know (and it hurts to see them :-{)
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