[sane-devel] iscan and apt dependencies

[Paul Fox]

 > >
 > > so at the least, this message is a bug report against the current
 > > iscan dependencies.  (btw, i'm not sure i understand how this should be
 > > resolved.)
 > 
 > Eh, no.  This is a limitation on our binary packages.  Please have a
 > look at the KNOWN-PROBLEMS and rebuild from source.  The source's
 > build dependencies support building with either version of libltdl-dev
 > installed.
 > 
 > Ubuntu kindly decided there was no need for a phase out of libltdl3
 > and dropped it completely in favour of libltdl7.  There is at least
 > one package in the Ubuntu universe (multiverse?) that suffers from
 > the same problem.

sigh.  thanks for the explanation, even if it wasn't the one i wanted.  :-)

paul
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