[sane-devel] scanimage does not recognize basic long options

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
I have checked in a change to scanimage in master and it should be in 1.2.1.

@karl, perhaps pull the change and make sure it is good for you?

Cheers,
Ralph


On 2023-02-04 11:47, m. allan noah wrote:
> I'm ok with breaking code freeze if you want
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 2:41 PM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On 2023-02-04 10:38, Karl Weber wrote:
>     > Hi Ralf,
>     >
>     > On Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:06:41 CET Ralph Little wrote:
>     >> The condition on SANE_OPTION_IS_SETTABLE(opt->cap) has been
>     removed in
>     >> version
>     >>> 1.1.1 and this causes the problem.
>     >> I'm a bit confused by this comment. I thought that your issue
>     was caused
>     >> by the backend sending NULL.
>     >> Which problem do you believe this causes? Or are you saying
>     that the
>     >> NULL options issue is revealed by this change? That is
>     certainly possible.
>     > Yes, you may also say that the NULL options issue has been
>     revealed by this
>     > change. I didn't know, why this check has been removed and I
>     don't know why it
>     > had been there beforehand. I am really new to sane! I started to
>     look at the
>     > code two days ago. Before I was only an ignorant user of
>     scanimage. So please
>     > excuse me.
>     >
>     > But irrespective of the wording, are you going to do something
>     about it? Or
>     > where would be the right place to fix this problem? Currently I
>     have no idea,
>     > whether hplip-sane is open source and what the chances would be,
>     to get a fix
>     > in there, if this would be the right place for a fix. I don't
>     even know,
>     > whether it is part of the SANE API specification, that there
>     must not be NULL
>     > options.
>     I suspect that the hpaio backend is doing something improper.
>     However,
>     we must deal with it somehow.
>     I will do a fix.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Ralph
>
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