Which header files do they need? allan
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > 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 > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
