Hello
On Oct 28 20:18 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt):
Johannes Meixner writes:
...
Suggestion for an additional goal for sane-backends-1.0.26:
- drop support for parallel port scanners
Low priority for 1.0.26 at best.
Also for me this is low priority because I have zero
issue reports regarding parallel port scanners.
I will report my experience when I have droped support
for parallel port scanners in openSUSE Tumbleweed.
But your suggestion made me think of
something more important:
- integrate distribution patches
The openSUSE patches are public available via the
openSUSE Build Service (OBS) development project "graphics"
therein the source package "sane-backends" at
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/graphics/sane-backends
Currently the only patch which is of interest for
SANE upstream is dell1600n_net-fix-strncat.patch
which is already fixed at SANE upstream
https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=315198&group_id=30186&atid=410366
All others are only for SUSE-specific needs.
RFC for an additional goal for sane-backends-1.0.26:
- switch to group "lp" instead of "scanner"
...
I think it best to leave this to the individual distributions to decide.
My hope is that the individual distributions might even be able
to agree on a common default so that all Linux users could have
the same default base of operations.
What can be done fairly easily, however, is to make it easier for them
to override/customize the DEVMODE, DEVOWNER and DEVGROUP values in
tools/sane-desc.c.
Perhaps a configure option to specify that would be nice?
FYI, Debian has
ENV{libsane_matched}=="yes", RUN+="/bin/setfacl -m g:scanner:rw $env{DEVNAME}"
I like to understand the reson behind why Debian uses
the "scanner" group.
Is it that for Debian use of consumables (paper and ink/toner)
in a printer is more strictly controlled than scanners?
Regardless what the reason is, I also like to understand how
Debian deals with multifunction devices because - as far as
I understand it - there is the conflict that multifunction devices
would have to belong both to the "lp" and the "scanner" group.
Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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