[sane-devel] [PATCH 2/2] sane-config fix, don't provide random infos

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Ruediger Meier writes:

> As I mentioned in one of my other emails in this thread I'd recommend to 
> declare sane-config deprecated (print a warning) to let developers use 
> pkg-config directly.
> This is IMO much better than changing sane-config's current behavior 
> just to make it usable for multiarch cases where it wasn't made for.

+1

> You could provide patches to 3rd party projects which are currently 
> using sane-config to use pkg-config instead. Note that then these 
> projects will require sane-backends >= 1.0.23 if you don't keep a 
> sane-config fallback.

AFAIK, pkg-config support was added in 1.0.21 already.

Hope this helps,
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