Re: [sane-devel] sane manpage out of date

2014-10-08 Thread Benoit Izac
Le 08/10/2014 à 01:01, m. allan noah écrivait : > Note that we also accept patches from users to fix our docs and code. Hi, >From my point of view, it's not true. No answer, no commit. -- Benoit Izac -- sane-devel m

Re: [sane-devel] sane manpage out of date

2014-10-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
m. allan noah writes: > The manpage you pointed to suggests you are using sane-backends > 1.0.19? You might find that the more recent epson2 backend meets your > needs. Epson2 has been the default for a few years now, and the > original epson backend is disabled by default. > > Note that we also a

Re: [sane-devel] sane manpage out of date

2014-10-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Mark Ballard writes: > Dear Sane Devs > > The sane-epson manpage is sending users up a dead-end alley. Indeed, it does. The NEWS file mentions that the epson backend was deprecated in 1.0.20 (released 5 years, 5 months and 5 days ago). You should be using the epson2 backend instead. This backen

Re: [sane-devel] sane manpage out of date

2014-10-07 Thread m. allan noah
The manpage you pointed to suggests you are using sane-backends 1.0.19? You might find that the more recent epson2 backend meets your needs. Epson2 has been the default for a few years now, and the original epson backend is disabled by default. Note that we also accept patches from users to fix ou

[sane-devel] sane manpage out of date

2014-10-07 Thread Mark Ballard
Dear Sane Devs The sane-epson manpage is sending users up a dead-end alley. It says: "Please send mail to the backend author (k...@khk.net) to report ... problems with scanners that are listed." And it says: "The package is actively maintained by Karl Heinz Kremer (k...@khk.net)." I emailed