And this is where I'm glad I run a source-compiled distro (Gentoo). I have the last latest release source (xsane-0.999) and some patches developed by the Gentoo staff/volunteers. That may help out with cleaning things up. Here's the links from a mirror:
http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/distfiles/xsane-0.999.tar.gz http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/distfiles/xsane-0.998-patches-2.tar.xz http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/distfiles/xsane-256x256.png You'll probably want to look at the patch set, which may help out with your cleaning. On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 7:19 AM Olaf Meeuwissen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > Olaf Meeuwissen writes: > > > Dear all, > > > > I'm happy to announce that the XSane source code is back online. > > > > In the summer of last year I mentioned that Oliver Rauch, XSane author > > and maintainer, had taken xsane.org off-line due to the burden imposed > > by the GDPR[1]. I also mentioned the possibility of hosting the XSane > > code under the SANE Project's "umbrella". > > > > [1]: > > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-devel/2018-August/036291.html > > > > Since then I have been working on-and-off with Oliver to get the source > > back online. Oliver has kindly provided an archive of all the releases > > he could find on his disks. I have used that to reconstruct the code's > > history as well as possible, cleaning up a bit along the way. > > I noticed that I didn't clean up as well as I could have :-( > > Files created by running ./configure ended up in the repository and a > number of files that shouldn't had their execute bits set. > > I have addressed that and *force* pushed a cleaned up repository. > > If you cloned the previous repository and did not edit anything, just > remove your checkout and clone again. > > If you have local changes, use git diff and/or git format-patch to > (re)apply your changes to a new clone. Once you have confirmed that > your changes are properly applied to the new clone you can remove the > old one. > > Sorry about any inconvenience caused. > > > You can find the result at > > > > https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontend/xsane > > 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 > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] -- Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price http://redwolf.ws -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
