I understand your frustration. It was a difficult decision for me to remove it. But frankly, it's meaning is undefined, and so any use of this CAP in a frontend is questionable. What are they using it to signify?
allan On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Johannes Meixner <jsm...@suse.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Aug 5 09:53 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): >> >> m. allan noah writes: >> >>> I removed SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE because it was not in the sane >>> standard > > ... >> >> Distributions don't get to decide the SANE standard ;-) > > > Of course not! > Distributions only try to keep things working when things break > between various upstream projects (see my other mail). > > >> If any frontends still use it, it is those frontends that need fixing. > > > In theory yes. > I practice it is me who is blamed when sane-backends "break" other > frontends and then I must "fix" sane-backends (see my other mail). > > > Only for the fun: > It is the same when other programs use undocumented private API > calls from CUPS (e.g. by blind copy and paste CUPS source code). > When later the other programs break because CUPS' private API > changed, then they cry "CUPS is to blame: CUPS is broken" ;-) > > > Kind Regards > Johannes Meixner > -- > SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, > Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand" -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
