Package: sane
Version: 1.0.14-7
Severity minor

I am running saned on a headless, embedded device. I see absolutely
no reason or benefit in running d-bus on this machine, and so
I don't. Yet, saned seems to think that everyone is running d-bus,
which is a shame.

Hence, every scan job is accompanied by a slew of errors and
warnings in syslog, as if saned thinks the world has come to an end
because it could not talk to d-bus.

I'd prefer if saned didn't vacuously depend on obviously optional
stuff (printing and scanning work), but the trend is obvious and
ubiquitous and fighting gratuitous dependencies is like fending off
the incoming flood with a sieve.</rant>

Assuming saned cannot dlopen() d-bus stuff and thus make it
a recommendation, rather than a hard dependency, at least it would
be nice if it noticed once at the start that d-bus is not working on
the system and shuts up about it subsequently.

  vizier saned[20388]: scan/sane/io.c 53: dBus Connection Error (Failed to 
connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory)!
  vizier saned[20390]: scan/sane/io.c 53: dBus Connection Error (Failed to 
connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory)!
  vizier saned[20390]: scan/sane/io.c 97: dbus message send failed!
  vizier saned[20390]: io/hpmud/jd.c 574: timeout read_channel sec=1 
hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_3052?ip=192.168.14.65
  vizier saned[20390]: scan/sane/io.c 97: dbus message send failed!

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