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 <skelb...@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
