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> forwarded 838212 https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1435022
Bug #838212 [hplip, sane-utils] Local scanners no longer available to saned
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> reassign 838212 libsane-hpaio
Bug #838212 [hplip, sane-utils] Local scanners no longer available to saned
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> reassign 807427 libsane-hpaio
Bug #807427 [hplip] sane-utils: Can not provide access to hplip scanner over 
network
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> merge 838212 807427
Bug #838212 [libsane-hpaio] Local scanners no longer available to saned
Bug #807427 [libsane-hpaio] sane-utils: Can not provide access to hplip scanner 
over network
Merged 807427 838212
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Bug#838212: Local scanners no longer available to saned

[martin f krafft]

Package: hplip, sane-utils
Severity: important

A while ago, hplip was "fixed" with a hack to work around
a deadlock. I've written about this on the saned mailing list:

  https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2016-March/034413.html

Long story short: the "workaround" was to take away saned's access
to remote scanners (local_only=1), meaning that all setups where
saned was used to export networked scanners (in a "DMZ" in our case)
to the local network are now broken.

I understand that generally saned needs not export remote scanners,
as clients could just access them directly, but there is a benefit
in centralising all access via saned, which allows better access
control and logging than many of the network scanners available on
the market.

If possible, it'd be great if the local_only setting could be made
configurable, at least for hpaio, so that for a setting like ours,
where the is no deadlock, I can get the desired behaviour.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii  adduser3.115
ii  coreutils  8.25-2
ii  cups   2.1.4-4
ii  hplip-data 3.16.8+repack0-2
ii  libc6  2.24-3
ii  libcups2   2.1.4-4
ii  libdbus-1-31.10.10-1
ii  libhpmud0  3.16.8+repack0-2
ii  libsane1.0.25+git20150927-1
ii  libsane-hpaio  3.16.8+repack0-2
ii  libsnmp30  5.7.3+dfsg-1.5
ii  libusb-1.0-0   2:1.0.20-1
ii  lsb-base   9.20160629
ii  policykit-10.105-16
ii  printer-driver-hpcups  3.16.8+repack0-2
ii  python33.5.1-4
ii  python3-dbus   1.2.4-1
ii  python3-gi 3.21.92-1
ii  python3-pexpect4.2.0-1
ii  python3-pil3.3.1-1
ii  python3-reportlab  3.3.0-1
ii  wget   1.18-2+b1

Versions of packages hplip recommends:
pn  avahi-daemon  
pn  printer-driver-postscript-hp  
ii  sane-utils1.0.26~git20151121-1

Versions of packages hplip suggests:
pn  hplip-doc  
pn  hplip-gui  
pn  python3-notify2
pn  system-config-printer  

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