[sane-devel] Epson 1640SU, no devices found, RH 8.0

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:36:07 +0100


Hi,

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:32:19AM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > If you remove the ltmain.sh hack, how do you want to get the linking
> > independent of the the dll backend working?
> > 
> > Most people won't use that feature but it's advertised in the SANE
> > standard so it's a basic feature of SANE. I wouldn't call removing a
> > feature "a fix". Well, it may be a temporary workaround but we all
> > know how long "temporary" can take :-)
> 
> If you would rather I start the errata process all over again with the
> better fix (of removing the ld.so.conf stuff) -- which will lead to a
> longer time before fixed packages are ready -- I will do that.  Let me
> know.

It's your decision. I just wanted to point out that that it's not a
bug fix but rather removing a (seldomly used) feature. I guess it's ok
if you reenable it with the next release or whenever you change the
package anyway.

We'll see if anyone notice it at all.

Bye,
  Henning