[sane-devel] Ubuntu FIX - I may be making some people VERY happy!!

[Steven Santos]

OK, so I have gotten Gunnar Hjalmarsson at Ubuntu to work on this.
Apparently a patch is in the 19.10 branch. He is doing some work to
backport the patch to the 19.04 and 18.10 releases.

I am working on updating this bug:

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1728012

Once its in a PPA, can we get help testing it?

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 6:45 PM Steven Santos <steven at simplycircus.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback!  Now to get Ubuntu to update to that patch...
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 1:46 PM Brian Potkin <claremont102 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 13:21, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack at member.fsf.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Steven,
>> >
>> > Steven Santos writes:
>> >
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > > Let me be clear, we know other distros are using it without issue, so
>> we
>> > > know its a ubuntu issue.  I even put that in the docs I wrote.
>> >
>> > Sorry, I must have missed that.
>>
>> Which other distros? The only one of consequence for Ubuntu and Mint is
>> Debian.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > > Well, I don't have control of that.  All I can do is write some
>> > > documentation to try and help :/
>> >
>> > I didn't mean to put the blame on you.  The blame is on distributions
>> > and third-party backend providers for not listening to their users.
>> >
>> > Apart from documenting work-arounds, you could try creating a patch for
>> > the Ubuntu packages and get that applied upstream.  That's assuming eaon
>> > is still affected.  Getting that patch into bionic would be great and
>> > very welcome to quite a few Ubuntu users.  Come to think of it, there
>> > may even be a patch floating around somewhere in one of the Ubuntu
>> > derivatives.  Is Mint Linux also affected?
>>
>> The latest Mint is based on Ubuntu Bionic. Lots of complaints is not too
>> much of an exageration.
>>
>> LP #1728012 has Messages #49 and #189, which didn't receive much
>> attention.
>>
>>   > I am a bit surprised at the number of people reporting an issue
>>   > here that is claimed to be new.
>>
>>   > I don't understand why /usr/lib/sane/ doesn't work according
>>   > to the comments here. When sane-backends was converted
>>   > to multiarch, a patch was added that I think was supposed to
>>   > enable /usr/lib/sane/ to still be supported.
>>
>> Jeremy Bicha followed up with Debian Bug #910103.
>>
>>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910103
>>
>> That led to
>>
>>   > Reactivate and refresh
>> debian/patches/0125-multiarch_dll_search_path.patch
>>   > to allow driver from non-multiarch directories (Closes: #910103).
>>
>> The patch is headed by
>>
>> > Description: Keep /usr/lib/sane as a fallback for SANE backends
>> > Make /usr/lib/arch_triplet/sane the default location for SANE backends,
>> > but keep /usr/lib/sane as a fallback for now.
>>
>> It other of words: it shouldn't have happened, but now it is fixed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Brian.
>>
>
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