David McNab <[email protected]> writes: > I've been happily using SANE for some months now on Debian Unstable. > > Did a large dist-upgrade, now SANE is broken.
I don't think sane is the only thing that broke. Unless you are willing to battle all problems in unstable at the same time, don't dist-upgrade. Stay at testing and only pull from unstable what you really need. Even so, it may still be advisable to recompile sources from unstable yourself under testing. > But when I do 'scanimage -L', a line of rubbish gets printed out to > my parallel port laser printer (!), then scanimage just hangs. Ditto > for xcane and xscanimage. > > I suspect the problem is *not* with SANE, but not absolutely sure on > this. Likely the problem is not with sane. I just compiled sane-backends (1.0.9-2) from the latest sid sources on sarge and could scan just fine. Reason for the recompile: I didn't feel like bumping libc6 from 2.2.5-x to 2.3.1-y. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libc6 > Much stuff on debian unstable is presently broken - developers are > admitting that. Hey, it's unstable. If it breaks, you get to keep the pieces :-) > But can anyone please advise me of a workaround that'll get my > scanning working again in the meantime? Downgrade to testing? -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
