Re: [sane-devel] Iscan and Ubuntu 17.10/18.04 fixed

2017-11-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Klaus, staedtler-przyborski writes: > Am 19.11.2017 um 09:14 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen: > >> I read through the bug report you mentioned below and think the whole >> thing sucks. Ubuntu has made a *huge* judgement error pulling an >> *experimental* package for their upcoming release just to

Re: [sane-devel] Iscan and Ubuntu 17.10/18.04 fixed

2017-11-21 Thread staedtler-przyborski
Am 19.11.2017 um 09:14 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen: I read through the bug report you mentioned below and think the whole thing sucks. Ubuntu has made a *huge* judgement error pulling an *experimental* package for their upcoming release just to get a newer version of the SANE backends upstream. A

Re: [sane-devel] Iscan and Ubuntu 17.10/18.04 fixed

2017-11-19 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Klaus, Jörg, staedtler-przyborski writes: > [... Ubuntu using libsane1-1.0.27-1~experimental* packages breaks just > about any third party SANE backend package ...] > In the meanwhile we got the following backends working by doing these steps: > > 1. Brother: brscan, brscan2, brscan3 > 2.

Re: [sane-devel] Iscan and Ubuntu 17.10/18.04 fixed

2017-11-18 Thread staedtler-przyborski
Am 18.11.2017 um 12:26 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen: Actually, I'd leave them where they are and create symlinks to them from where they are expected. After moving them back to /usr/lib/sane cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane ln -s ../../sane/libsane-epkowa.la ln -s

Re: [sane-devel] Iscan and Ubuntu 17.10/18.04 fixed

2017-11-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi, staedtler-przyborski writes: > Dear Sane developers, > > all Iscan dependend Epson scanners refused to work with Ubuntu 17.10 > (and 18.04) > > see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1707352. What a mess. Changing the package name from libsane to libsane1 and then

[sane-devel] Iscan and Ubuntu 17.10/18.04 fixed

2017-11-01 Thread staedtler-przyborski
Dear Sane developers, all Iscan dependend Epson scanners refused to work with Ubuntu 17.10 (and 18.04) see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1707352. I know it is not your fault. But maybe some users try to find a solution on the sane-devel-mailing- list. I