Yep, vuescan is the commercial software I was referring to in my previous post, and yes, I tried the ugly workaround as soon as Hans Schwimmbeck posted it, and it used to work, but it prevents from updating too many packages due to a daisy chain of dependencies; I do not even know if I could reinstall it now that it's been removed and the system has been updated, but surely uninstalling it hasn't been easy. As a matter of fact the developers should fix what they broke, or the hardware manufacturer should rewrite the drivers against libsane1, which is very unlikely, especially for old peripherals. Any other solution requiring user action is a workaround, not a bug fix, but I'd be very happy to take action to resurrect the Brother scanner, if I only knew where to stick my hands!
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