Stef stef.dev at free.fr writes:
in genesys backend build 2508 (commit
4eea901305c9cb66428023c93cbd1a63af8c5fba) I have just pushed fixes for
several opened issues in the bug tracker:
- #315104 [...]
- #315105 [...]
Thanks to the work of John S. Weber jweber53 at
Hello,
On Aug 5 08:21 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt):
Johannes Meixner writes:
...
My re-add-SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE.patch re-adds SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE
to sane.h which was erroneously removed in sane-backends-1.0.20 so that
sane-frontends and xsane can no longer build, see
Hello,
On Aug 5 09:53 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt):
m. allan noah writes:
I removed SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE because it was not in the sane
standard
...
Distributions don't get to decide the SANE standard ;-)
Of course not!
Distributions only try to keep things working when things
I understand your frustration. It was a difficult decision for me to
remove it. But frankly, it's meaning is undefined, and so any use of
this CAP in a frontend is questionable. What are they using it to
signify?
allan
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Johannes Meixner jsm...@suse.de wrote:
Hello,
On Aug 5 07:47 m. allan noah wrote (excerpt):
What are they using it to signify?
I cannot answer this right now because I do not maintain
SANE frontends packages for openSUSE (see my other mail).
Right now I checked skanlite and there is
no SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE in its sources.
For me it is much improved, but still not perfect: I have a scan out of 3 that
doesn't start with an invalid argument. It used to be all of them though :)
On Sunday 02 August 2015 19:16:21 m...@fastmail.com wrote:
This has fixed all of the problems I reported last April 6, and which
others
Just FYI: regarding xsane there is no usage of SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE in
0.998 any more. And there is a related entry in the changelog. Therefore xsane
should not cause issues as well.
HTH,
take care
Dieter Jurzitza
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Hi Johannes,
Sorry if my reply hit a raw nerve. Didn't mean to.
I just wanted to point out that SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE is not part of
the specification and therefore your suggestion to add it to sane.h was
a bit misguided. You are of course free to keep that patch in the SUSE
packaging of
