Yep, looks like this whole mess is being caused by problems with libsane-extras.
** Also affects: sane-backends-extras (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[hardy] /dev missing some entries, others have wrong permissions
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180169
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