Hi, Yesterday I committed a new version of tools/sane-desc.c. That's the program that generates our HTML lists of supported devices and is also used for the scanner search engine.
The main change is that there is no longer a backend status, only a per-device status. The possible status values have changed, I'll cite doc/descriptions.txt here: The keyword :status' is an indication of the level of support for the model. It's followed by one of the following keyword arguments: :unsupported', :untested', :minimal', :basic', :good', or :complete'. The :status' keyword refers to the previous :model', is optional and should be used only once per model. :unsupported' means the device is not supported at least by this backend. The keyword should only be used in the file unsupported.desc', or to make clear that a specific scanner is not supported by a backend. :untested' means the device may be supported but couldn't be tested. :minimal' means that the device is detected and scans at least in one mode. But the quality is bad or important features won't work. :basic' means it works at least in the most important modes but quality is not perfect. :good' means the device is usable for day-to-day work. Some rather exotic features may be missing. :complete' means the backends supports everything the device can do. Example: :status :untested' sane-desc.c still accepts the old status codes (with warnings) and tries to translate them: alpha->basic, beta->good, stable->complete. This translation isn't correct in mayne cases, however. So please update your description files as soon as possible to reflect the actual support for the devices. I'll update the unmaintained backends's description files. Thanks to Jochen Eisinger for updateing the scanner search enigine to the new format. Bye, Henning
