Hi, I'm the new Debian maintainer for sane-backends. I thought I should introduce myself. I've been meaning to contribute to Debian for a long time (17 years?) but every time I found something I was seriously interested in, somebody else had done it already. Recently, when I bought a Canon MX452, and needed sane-backends 1.0.24 to make it work, I figured I'd actually make myself useful since I was packaging it for myself anyway.
Also, I used to work on scanner drivers in real life. It was a very long time ago (early 90s), and they were mostly high-end SCSI scanners (e.g., 120+ double-sided pages/minute). So, um, hi. -- Mark Buda <hermit at acm.org> I get my monkeys for nothing and my chimps for free.
