Hello! While trying to get the Canon P-215 document scanner work with SANE, I stumbled across a driver package directly offered by Canon [1].
This driver packages contains two 32 bit packages for both .rpm- and .deb-based systems, no 64 bit packages, but at least a source tarball with a binary blob and some C code. Since my host system is running a 64 bit unstable, I thought I'd try rebuilding the package for 64 bit. While doing that, I found that the libsane-dev package in Debian currently contains solely two header files, namely "sane.h" and "saneopts.h" while the SANE upstream sources contain many more headers files from which the Canon driver also needs several of. Can anyone agree that the libsane-dev package in Debian should ship all header files such that external backends can be developed? If yes, I'd help Mark Buda, the current maintainer of the package in Debian, to get a fixed version of the package into unstable. Cheers, Adrian > http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/office/products/hardware/scanners/high_speed_document_scanners/imageformula_p_215_scan_tini_personal_document_scanner#DriversAndSoftware -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz at debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
