[sane-devel] Patch to make XSane work with SANE 1.1

[m. allan noah]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote:
> stef <stef.dev at free.fr> wrote:
>
>>         unfortunately, we don't have the same idea of what SANE 1.1 goals
>> should be. It has only  been stated that SANE 1.1 will have to be compatible
>> for backends not frontends. This is because we don't have the ability to test
>> all the scanners that would have been impacted by bigger changes than those
>> that went into SANE 1.1.
>
> In that case, you have to increment libsane's soversion.
>
> As far as I remember, we did not want to do that.
>
> So please increment V_MAJOR in configure.in to 2. You're breaking
> everyone's system without that, and you're going to seriously piss off
> distributors too (me first).

When i suggested this months ago, you swore that a soversion bump was
out of the question. We've not changed our target since that time, why
the change of heart on your end?

allan
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