I can confirm that the Epson Perfection V300 is also affected Using libsane1 1.0.27-1~experimental2ubuntu2.1 allows me to install the drivers without conflicts.
But the scanner is not recognized. Neither by scanimage, simple-scan or iscan lsusb shows that the scanner is attached lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8009 Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 006: ID 04b8:0131 Seiko Epson Corp. GT-F720 [GT-S620/Perfection V30/V300 Photo] Bus 003 Device 005: ID 046d:c069 Logitech, Inc. M-U0007 [Corded Mouse M500] Bus 003 Device 004: ID 08bb:2707 Texas Instruments Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0409:005a NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 24f0:0137 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1728012 Title: Many 3rd party scanner drivers are broken by a sane change To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1728012/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs