Hi Jeremy, Since I was not aware of this bug, I have involved myself in bug #1728012 and try to turn it into a bug report again and a base for some action.
Would appreciate if you could take a look at the latest comments at the other bug, especially comment #232. As you can see I got stuck completely as regards scanning on bionic. I noticed that you were involved in this package at the time, and wonder if you have some theory about the reason why scanning fails for me on bionic. I can scan with my device on 16.04 and 19.04. Missing package dependency? As regards why support for the non-multiarch directories was stopped only around 2017/2018, Debian has had a patch to keep up the support for a long time, but it was (accidentally?) disabled: https://jff.email/cgit/sane- backends.git/commit/debian/patches/series?id=1edb0210 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to sane-backends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1795725 Title: Ubuntu should support drivers installed to non-multiarch directory Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in sane-backends package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: Impact ====== Some manufacturers and vendors distribute their own scanner drivers. Some of these drivers install to /usr/lib/sane/ instead of the multi-arch directory Ubuntu uses. Expected Behavior ================ sane-backends should support the non-multiarch directory too. Also, some Brother drivers use the /usr/lib64/sane/ directory (as used in Fedora and RHEL). It would be helpful if Ubuntu supported that directory too. Other Info ========== There is much more discussion about this issue at LP: #1728012 I split this bug off since this is about a single specific issue and that bug has become more of a support thread. The multiarch switch seemed to happen in 1.0.22-4 way back in 2011. I don't know why there seem to be more reports now. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1795725/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
