[sane-devel] [Regression] libsane-extras doesn't work any more with EPSON PM-A820

[m. allan noah]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen
<olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote:
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> m. allan noah wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen
>> <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote:
>>> The PM-A820 is a model for the Japanese market.  Check the Japanese
>>> download page[1].  FWIW, this model does not depend on a non-free,
>>> binary-only plugin.
>>
>> does this then mean that the device should be supported by the epson2
>> backend which ships with sane?
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> The epson2 backend maintainer has marked it :good for 1.0.21.
> This happened in
> http://git.debian.org/?p=sane/sane-backends.git;a=commitdiff;h=40e08cbb36dd862050016b3aede89c45e2c30aa2
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> If that doesn't work, Alessandro has a bug to fix ;-)

Thanks for the detective work. Yann- you might be in luck. No need to
install libsane-extras, if you can upgrade libsane to 1.0.21.

allan
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