On 20/11/12 00:38, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > What is it you'd like to know about the Epson iscan release notes?
Sorry again for the HTML/plain-text mix-up. Just for the record, here are copies of my original request & the good answer I received: ::::::::::::::::::::: Request: I notice from a recent reply by Olaf Meeuwissen on another thread (thanks Olaf for your frequent help!) that Epson drivers should no longer be downloaded from avasys.jp but from http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/ (which I would never have found unaided & still can't find starting from epson.com...). Thanks for that! From that site, I notice that the version of iscan I am using, downloaded January 2012 is now slightly out of date (2.28.1 vs 2.29.1). Simple logic would imply updating. Experience suggests avoiding tampering with an iscan that works! So I would be interested to know what is different between versions, to see if there is anything that makes it worth risking a change. If the changes are just support for extra models, I would not change yet. Often, download sites provide "release notes" which detail changes per release. I have not been able to find any for iscan. Do they exist? Thanks! :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Reply: Hi, Am 19.11.2012 11:49, schrieb 2cv67: > So I would be interested to know what is different between versions, to > see if there is anything that makes it worth risking a change. > If the changes are just support for extra models, I would not change yet. > Often, download sites provide "release notes" which detail changes per > release. > I have not been able to find any for iscan. > > Do they exist? There are imho some informaion included in the packages itself, in /usr/share/doc/iscan ... you could just download the packages, and extract teh file without actually installing the sw package, e.g. dpkg -x iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl7_i386.deb a_temp_dir/ NEWS tells, quote: NEWS -- an overview of user-visible changes with each release ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iscan-2.29.1 (2012-06-07) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * update the scanner command handling for the LP-M5300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iscan-2.29.0 (2012-03-05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * not publicly released * changed contact information following change of distribution channel * added build-time support for libusb-1.0 * updated the sanei_*.[ch] files to sane-backends-1.0.22 Cheers, Tobias :::::::::::::::::::::::::: My response: On 19/11/12 14:32, Tobias Stoeber wrote: > There are imho some informaion included in the packages itself, in /usr/share/doc/iscan ... you could just download the packages, and extract teh file without actually installing the sw package Thanks, Tobias! That worked just as you said. I was able to confirm the information you included, which shows no need to update yet. And I will be able to do it myself in future! Thanks again! ::::::::::: So - question solved for me. It would be handy if the release notes were on the Epson site, though.
