Hello all, Googling on the Internet, because of the "W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package iscan-interpreter" issue, I found this.
I experienced this on a freshly installed i386 Debian Lenny. I got the packages iscan-plugin-gt-x750_2.1.0-4_i386.deb and iscan_2.19.0-4_i386.deb from http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/scan/DL2.do I have installed them with dpkg (did not use the Ubuntu workaround). Installation and setup went fine except for the same error as Olav, as reported below. I have tried to cleanup the apt database without success. Please could you tell me how to solve this? I can also provide more info if needed. Cheers, Damien Alesh Slovak wrote: > > Hi, > >> Thank you very much, Alesh. Since you are replying off list, do I >> understand correctly that questions about the epkowa/iscan software >> should rather not be posted on sane-devel? > No, that's not the case at all. I replied to the list as well as > directly to you. I usually do this just to make sure that the original > poster gets my reply in case they miss it on the list. > >>> Ah, yes, we are aware of this problem, but as far as we are concerned >>> this is Ubuntu's mess. There isn't much we can do, unfortunately. This >>> should sort itself out when Debian migrates to libltdl7, which isn't >>> going to be for another few years, I guess. >> >> Again, I'm not a developer, but I have been using Debian and Ubuntu for >> quite some time now. I think I have seen packages that had "either or" >> dependencies (or whatever they were called). > From what I understand, we can't just do that because it would still > require recompiling for each type of system. Ones with libltdl7 and ones > with libltdl3. There are fairly simple workarounds, so we mentioned it > in the documentation and left it at that. > >> Perhaps Ubuntu users should at least be forewarned about this issue, or >> they will all have the same problem. > As mentioned above, this problem is mentioned in the documentation > included in the package, but it isn't exactly easily accessible. It > might be a good idea to put this information on the website as well. > >>> iscan-interpreter is a virtual package used for determining >>> compatibility between versions of iscan and its plugins, so yes, you >>> won't find it anywhere. I am not exactly sure why this message is being >>> displayed, but it shouldn't be a problem. >> >> That's what I gathered. But I still think it is a (cosmetic, low >> priority) bug. Perhaps it can be registered as such. > We haven't seen this error in our testing, and seeing as how you > installed with a very unorothodox method, I am tempted to chalk it up to > that. > > If you do see this again using the workaround I mentioned, then please > let me know. > > Alesh > > -- > Alesh Slovak Linux Team -- AVASYS Corporation > alesh.slovak at avasys.jp http://avasys.jp > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/%22epkowa%22-driver-installation-on-Ubuntu-8.10-tp22700652p22912775.html Sent from the SANE - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.