Ren? Rebe <rene at exactcode.de> wrote: >> Doesn't mean people don't use & need them anymore :( > > Yes, sure. And I'm a big fan of using old hardware for serveral reasons.
Hardware that doesn't break :-) > That's why I have thel still in the shelf for tsting. But thing is it just > works here. And I know at least the newer HP53xx have a newer > ASIC variant I have not for testing. > > I only meant not to rush a revert for very few affected scanners when I'm not sure it's only a few scanners. I've got 2 bug reports in a row in a couple of days after sane-backends propagated to our testing distribution. Given the userbase and the average scanning frequency for the average user, it's possible that it impacts more hardware than you seem to think. > the new code adds support for lots of new devices and features. Which is nice :) > Btw. we should release the sane-backends way more often. So that > even if there are minor regressions or some single new device IDs > a new release can be done on a monthly basis. That's something we should try to get at. The current release got delayed because of an overall low activity and lack of a release manager. Thought about starting the process quite a few times actually, but never got around to doing it. >> I'll see if the submitters can do that. > > Yes please. Comparision with my SVN tree would help, likewise. Built, uploaded somewhere, and asked for the test. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169
