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From: Bryan Cebuliak <bryan.cebul...@gmail.com>
Date: 31 October 2010 20:55
Subject: Re: Bug#591767: Scanner device won't show up.
To: Julien BLACHE <jbla...@debian.org>
Pardon me. I am breaking the toys with Sid on my desktop.
HP5590 is a USB scanner not recognised on Sid's libsane 1.0.21-5.
Thanks for the fix.
On 31 October 2010 19:33, Julien BLACHE <jbla...@debian.org> wrote:
> Bryan Cebuliak <bryan.cebul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> The problem is not limited to multifunction devices. My HP5590
>> scanjet scanner was not recognised by scanimage though
>
> If it's a SCSI scanner, this isn't the same issue at all; it's just that
> we lack its SCSI IDs in our list.
>
>> My problem was fixed with installing libsane version
>> 1.0.22~git1.0.21-157-g126c70d-1 from experimental which has in
>> /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules :
>> "...
>> ENV{libsane_matched}=="yes", RUN+="/usr/bin/setfacl -m g:scanner:rw
>> $env{DEVNAME}"
>> ..."
>
> In Squeeze, this is only useful if you are not using a desktop
> environment or the environment isn't using ConsoleKit. Other than that,
> it should work out of the box.
>
>> This really was a show stopper for me and caused much blood
>> on the floor. As far as I am concerned this bug should
>> be upgraded to grave, or, better. fixed.
>
> That fix was NACKed by the release team for Squeeze, thanks, in part, to
> the acl maintainers taking too much time to pull their sh*t together
> when asked to move 2 binaries from /usr/bin to /bin.
>
> Out of my hands. Sorry.
>
> JB.
>
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