Hi, This is a heads up for maintainers of packages depending on libsane.
I have just uploaded sane-backends 1.0.19-24 which switches to using pthreads instead of forking reader processes while acquiring image data. Note that not every backend uses a reader process (thread, now). This is a change that has some potential for breakage in applications, so even though I do not expect any issues to pop up, watch out for any. It is the only change in 1.0.19-24 compared to -23, which makes troubleshooting for this particular change easy. I expect some gain wrt acquisition time on large images due to this change, and that's why it's being done. The pthread code has been the default on Mac OS X forever IIRC, so it's stable, tested code and not an experimental thing. Thanks, JB. -- Julien BLACHE <jbla...@debian.org> | Debian, because code matters more Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | <http://www.debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
