[sane-devel] perfection v10

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Valerio,

valerio writes:

> hi Olaf,
>
> Il 11/01/20 14:09, Olaf Meeuwissen ha scritto:
>> Hi Valerio, iscan-data maintainer(s),
>>
>
>
>> Thanks for the files.  That policy.out file doesn't look like it should,
>> at all.  It's supposed to contain a pile of additional rules that look
>> like whatever the distribution's libsane package uses for USB devices.
>>
>> It appears that the Debian package maintainer split off the USB devices
>> into a 20-sane.hwdb and only left the SCSI devices in 60-libsane.rules.
>> This was done to address Debian bug 869244 (see [1]).
>>
>>    [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869244
>>
>> Unfortunately, that seems to have broken the logic in make-policy-file.
>> That script has been working fine for more than a decade on multiple
>> distributions but it looks like it needs some fixing up now.  The Debian
>> change will problably also affect *all* of Debian's downstreams :-/
>>
> thank you for your answer
>
> last week i gave the scanner to a friend, who has the shop where i
> normally buy the hardware, to test in a microsoft pc, and look at the
> components.
> the scanner works, but only for two minutes and about forty seconds...
> i tested the machine, cut the power supply, after half an hour,
> connected again, it worked for the two minutes and so and then gave me
> error.
>
> valerio
>
> sorry for my defective english

Looks like your device is more defective than your english :-/

Anyway, the issue with iscan-data's post-install script is device
independent so that remains to be fixed.  In the mean time though, I've
noticed that iscan-data also includes a /lib/udev/hwdb.d/iscan-data.hwdb
that has an entry for the Perfection V10.

Based on what I see on a Devuan beowulf setup (basically Debian buster
w/o systemd), that ought to be enough to make the device usable for a
logged in user.

Hope this helps,
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