Bug#556877: sane-utils: Template advice could be a little more helpful
Brian Potkin claremont...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, An explicit mention somewhere of the role avahi plays would have clued me in to how this is achieved and saved me a bit of time. As it happens I use Unfortunately that template is already too long to fit in a standard terminal, so making it longer was not really an option :/ --no-install-recommends with apt-get and got network scanning going by configuring the client, so I never found out whether mDNS discovery works. With avahi-daemon demoted to a 'Suggests' in Sid it might be beneficial to modify the advice to users. The mDNS support is unfinished in a number of ways, so unless I can get back to working on it, I'm probably going to disable it for Squeeze. Currently the discovery in the net backend doesn't work very well; it's racy and there are issues with updating the device list at runtime that render the whole mDNS thing not very useful in the end. Also I haven't received any feedback about it; I worked on this to make the user experience on the desktop better, but it didn't pick up. mDNS would probably works best if integrated in the application rather than in the backend :/ JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian GNU/Linux Developer - jbla...@debian.org Public key available on http://www.jblache.org - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#556912: Bug#556877: sane-utils: Template advice could be a little more helpful
On Wed 18 Nov 2009 at 12:36:13 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: The mDNS support is unfinished in a number of ways, so unless I can get back to working on it, I'm probably going to disable it for Squeeze. I'd suggest altering the template then to reflect this. Currently the discovery in the net backend doesn't work very well; it's racy and there are issues with updating the device list at runtime that render the whole mDNS thing not very useful in the end. Also I haven't received any feedback about it; I worked on this to make the user experience on the desktop better, but it didn't pick up. After installing avahi-daemon my very quick and hurried look this morning at mDNS discovery wasn't very successful. Avahi-discover on another machine could see saned running but xsane didn't find any scanner. Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#556912: Bug#556877: sane-utils: Template advice could be a little more helpful
Brian Potkin br...@copernicus.demon.co.uk wrote: Hi, After installing avahi-daemon my very quick and hurried look this morning at mDNS discovery wasn't very successful. Avahi-discover on another machine could see saned running but xsane didn't find any scanner. Yes, it's a race between the Avahi discovery and the backend startup. JB. -- Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org | Debian, because code matters more Debian GNU/Linux Developer| http://www.debian.org Public key available on http://www.jblache.org - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#556877: sane-utils: Template advice could be a little more helpful
Package: sane-utils Version: 1.0.19-23 Severity: normal Part of the 'Enable saned as a standalone server?' section of the sane-utils template says: When run in standalone mode, saned advertises itself on the network and can be detected automatically by the SANE clients with no configuration on the client side. An explicit mention somewhere of the role avahi plays would have clued me in to how this is achieved and saved me a bit of time. As it happens I use --no-install-recommends with apt-get and got network scanning going by configuring the client, so I never found out whether mDNS discovery works. With avahi-daemon demoted to a 'Suggests' in Sid it might be beneficial to modify the advice to users. Saned works brilliantly. Thanks for your contribution to making my scanning experience more pleasurable. Regards, Brian. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages sane-utils depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libavahi-client3 0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi common library ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libieee1284-3 0.2.11-5 cross-platform library for paralle ii libsane 1.0.19-23 API library for scanners ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13userspace USB programming library ii update-inetd 4.31 inetd configuration file updater Versions of packages sane-utils recommends: pn avahi-daemon none (no description available) Versions of packages sane-utils suggests: pn unpaper none (no description available) -- debconf information: * sane-utils/saned_run: true * sane-utils/saned_scanner_group: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
