[sane-devel] saned does not find hpaio scanner [Fwd: madduck at debian.org]

[martin f krafft]

Hello,

the following message¹ is now 6 months without a response, and the
problem is unsolved.

¹) https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2016-March/034413.html

What does it mean? Is sane dead?

----- Forwarded message from martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> -----

Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 12:36:02 +0100
From: martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org>
To: sane developers & discussion list <sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Subject: Re: saned does not find hpaio scanner
Message-ID: <20160313113602.GA30753 at fishbowl.rw.madduck.net>

I traced the problem to

  https://sourceforge.net/p/hplip/mailman/hplip-devel/thread/46A1257E.5060002@cab.cnea.gov.ar/

tl;dr: hplip changed and now the hpaio backend no longer ignores the
local_only flag. In the past, saned/hpaio was able to access network
printers, even though saned asked it to search local_only. This has
now been "fixed" to avoid a deadlock situation:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743593#c18

The question now becomes: how can I tell saned to please also
consider non-local devices, i.e. pass local_only=0 to the
sane_hpaio_get_devices() call?

Or is there a better solution?

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