[sane-devel] Iscan install

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> writes:

> "Wolfram Heider" <wolframheider at web.de> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:38:00 +0200, Russbucket <russbucket at nwi.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri October 6 2006 14:10, Gary Montalbine wrote:
>>>> Tried to install iscan 2.3 and got the following errors:
>>>>
>>>> rpm -ivh iscan-2.3.0-1.c2.i386.rpm
>>>> Preparing...                ###########################################
>>>> [100%]
>>>>          file /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.15 from install of
>>>> iscan-2.3.0-1.c2 conflicts with file from package
>>>> libsane1-1.0.18-7mdv2007.0 file
>>>> /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/iscan.mo
>>>> from install of iscan-2.3.0-1.c2 conflicts with file from package
>>>> sane-backends-1.0.18-7mdv2007.0
>>>> [snip]

>> There seem to be some flaws in the mdk SANE.rpm. Ich would recommend
>> to uninstall and substitute it with the .tar.gz from the SANE-server.
>
> Yup!  Seems mandriva decided to make iscan part of the SANE project
> ... and did a bad job at that (message catalogs for the frontend in
> the sane-backends package???).
>
> I'll be filing a bug report to get iscan removed from their packages.
> If they insist on providing iscan, they should do so in a separate
> package.

Done.  The bug report is at:

  http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=26470

Hope this helps,
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