Oliver Schwartz writes:
> Olaf, > > Would you mind adding your notes on firmware file names to the > snapscan.desc file so that everyone can see them? They can go in the > :comment. > > If you can do so before 2020-08-22, please push your changes on the > release/1.0.31 branch. > > Doh! I just stumbled upon #293 again which I had decided to take care > of for our upcoming 1.0.31 release (and promptly forgotten about until > looked at the milestone five minutes ago :-o). > > https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/293 > > I'll assign that to you in addition to myself. > > I’ve created a merge request for this issue and added the PHOTO suffix to > some of the epson scanner models so the names match the ones from the epson2 > backend. The firmware file names have also been > added. I’ll merge this if I don’t hear objections. > > I’m wondering though if the “unsupported” entries from the epson2 backend > should be removed. They should stay because the device is *not* supported by the epson2 backend. Or the entries should be removed completely. Or the entries should point to a backend that does support the device. Especially with backends named after vendors, people tend to jump to the conclusion that such a backend supports any hardware the vendor throw at them. As a result, they may only be looking at said backend's info to decide whether or not their device is supported. It is probably better to point people to a supporting backend and/or make it very clear that their device is not supported by the backend they're looking at. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join
