Paul Newall writes: > version 1.0.23 is in ubuntu 12.10 > But the network scanner auto detection in kodakaio (which uses cups) does > not work. > It seems likely that when the backends were compiled cups.h was not > detected, so the autodetection was excluded from kodakaio. > > Does anyone have ideas about this? > What's the best way to approach ubuntu to discuss it?
Submit a bug report against the sane-backends package on Launchpad[1]. The debian/control file should include a Build-Depends on libcups-dev. [1] https://launchpad.net/sane-backends That said, the Debian package doesn't seem to include that dependency either. > Should I be checking for the presence of cups at run time, rather than at > compile time? - there are many other checks for the presence of libraries in > configure, is that a general problem when distros build executables: where > the libraries used depend on the set up of the "machine" that does the > compiling, and not on the set up of the user's machine. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962
