Hopefully this bug will be fixed eventually, but for now I found an ugly workaround which made my Brother scanner (brscan3 driver) work again.
- Installed the equivs package. - Purged libsane1 by 'sudo dpkg --purge --ignore-depends=libsane1 libsane1'. - Installed the zesty versions of libsane, libsane-common and sane-utils by 'sudo dpkg -i' and marked them not to be upgraded by 'sudo apt-mark hold libsane libsane-common sane-utils'. - Created a controlfile 'libsane1' by 'equivs-control libsane1' and edited it so that it looks like this: ------------ ### Commented entries have reasonable defaults. ### Uncomment to edit them. # Source: <source package name; defaults to package name> Section: misc Priority: optional # Homepage: <enter URL here; no default> Standards-Version: 3.9.2 Package: libsane1 Version: 4:99 # Maintainer: Your Name <yourn...@example.com> # Pre-Depends: <comma-separated list of packages> # Depends: <comma-separated list of packages> # Recommends: <comma-separated list of packages> # Suggests: <comma-separated list of packages> # Provides: <comma-separated list of packages> # Replaces: <comma-separated list of packages> # Architecture: all # Multi-Arch: <one of: foreign|same|allowed> # Copyright: <copyright file; defaults to GPL2> # Changelog: <changelog file; defaults to a generic changelog> # Readme: <README.Debian file; defaults to a generic one> # Extra-Files: <comma-separated list of additional files for the doc directory> # Files: <pair of space-separated paths; First is file to include, second is destination> # <more pairs, if there's more than one file to include. Notice the starting space> Description: dummy package dummy package for libsane1 ------------ - Built a dummy package libsane1_99_all.deb by 'equivs-build libsane1' and installed it by 'sudo dpkg -i' to satisfy dependencies. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1707352 Title: the change from libsane to libsane1 broke many (all?) 3rd party plug- ins for sane To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1707352/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
